Policy Research International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352685387
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Springfield Gardens, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6462395354
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,900
- Expenses
- $77,900
- Assets
- $242,786
- Liabilities
- $70,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jafar Abdulkadir Danesi (Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer)
People named in this filing
- Jafar Abdulkadir Danesi (Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer)
- Eniolorunda Amos D (Safety and Security Officer)
- Isreal O Ekpo (Chief Financial Officer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Policy Research International Inc promotes sustainable human development, business growth and social transformation by providing development services that empowers disadvantaged people and communities with skills to become self-sufficient, economic independence and improved livelihood in North America and Africa.
What it reported doing in 2025
Policy Research International Inc. continued providing COVID-19 variant public awareness and prevention education, community engagement, and prevention education in public parks and subways in Richmond, Kings, and Queens Counties in New York. Policy Research International Inc. promoted the use of face masks by procuring and distributing free face masks and cleaning and sanitizers in public parks and subways across Richmond, Kings, and Queens Counties in New York. PRI Inc. recruited and trained volunteers that conducted door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination education for residents in communities across New York City. PRI Inc. also distributed information and personal protection materials and equipment to residents across New York City
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.12; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.