Rad Lab

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
854394673
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
8655489232
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Dance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$106,335
Expenses
$116,065
Assets
$28,109
Liabilities
$37,839

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ERIC MINNICK (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • AMY LAVIERS (DIRECTOR)
  • ERIC MINNICK (PRESIDENT)
  • WHITNEY DAVIS (TREASURER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The rad lab fosters pioneering work at the intersection of robotics and dance.

What it reported doing in 2024

Executed subaward on national science foundation grant #2234195, including community development workshops at ieee international conference on robotics and automation (icra 2024) and acm/ieee international conference on human-robot interaction (hri 2024) and development of a novel movement annotation system; published two major articles: "robots and dance: a promising young alchemy" by amy laviers in the annual review of control, robotics, and autonomous systems, volume 8, pp. 323-350. And "what does it mean? On platform-invariant 'body-language' dictionaries" by amy laviers; chapter 9 of the book "cultural technologies: robots and artificial intelligence in the performing arts" edited by yuji sone and richard savery; began organizing arts in robotics for icra 2025; began planning outreach efforts with new employee dr. Nialah wilson-small; attended several conferences/symposia, including giving a keynote talk at university of Maryland's moving with screens + machines; taught part of stc 209 at princeton university; q&a with first lego team in schaumburg, il.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.35; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.