Primate Studies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870860844
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6178428101
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,962
- Expenses
- $1,276
- Assets
- $6,839
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Monte Foster (Chairman, Dir.)
- Laura Simpson Dains (Secretary, Dir)
- Toby Schiffer (Treasurer, Dir)
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
Our mission is provide outreach through activities including, but not limited to, providing education about non-human primates and ways to protect them and their natural habitats, providing education about different cultures, and ecology education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our accomplishments for 2025 include:- Partnership with Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center - Establishment of Zoo Days
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.5%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 34.6%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.36; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.5% of revenue deployed · 34.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $442 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.