Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942243283
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Beltsville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3017552700
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Biological & Life Sciences
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,698,460
- Expenses
- $16,218,780
- Assets
- $12,897,015
- Liabilities
- $7,663,549
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM WIECZOREK (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TED MILLER (SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST II): $473,017 total reported compensation
- GARY KLIG (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $411,458 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM WIECZOREK (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRESIDENT): $395,894 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the pacific institute for research and evaluation is to promote, undertake and evaluate activities, studies and programs that improve individual and public health, welfare, and safety. In support of this mission, we create and support an environment within which skilled, innovative, diverse and dedicated researchers and practitioners work to extend the frontiers of scientific knowledge and its application.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants and contracts represent the costs of conducting research, evaluating programs, developing policy, and delivering training and technical assistance in the area of human service, including safety and health, through federal grants and contracts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 68% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 most filed governance safeguards are in place. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.8%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 66.8%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 95%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 63.6%; rating input score 64; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.8% of revenue deployed · 66.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $473K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $648K reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 24 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.