Ocean River Institute Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 208273235
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2013–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
Phone: 9786216657
Rating: 79
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $110,602
Expenses: $113,327
Assets: $20,034
Liabilities: $3,469

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Ronald Moir (President)

People named in this filing

Ronald Moir (President)
Jay Baldwin (Treasurer)
James Elder (Clerk)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To protect natural resouces and wildlife

What it reported doing in 2025

To foster greater personal involvememt in conservation, resource monitoring and protecting ecosystems, building relationship with scientists and community.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 75
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 26
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 75.5%; rating input score 75
Program expense ratio: 73.6%; rating input score 74

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: -2.5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 75.5% of revenue deployed · 73.6% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.