Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521886511
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025441034
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hot Line, Crisis Intervention Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,384,566
- Expenses
- $24,348,594
- Assets
- $33,728,806
- Liabilities
- $5,167,979
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Scott Berkowitz (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Scott Berkowitz (President): $523,676 total reported compensation
- Rajit Kabadi (Chief Consulting Officer): $397,590 total reported compensation
- Keisha O'Marde-Jack (Chief People Officer): $292,929 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization, carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help victims and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and the DoD Safe Helpline.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public Education: RAINN educates the public about sexual violence, working with national media and the entertainment industry to elevate sexual violence storylines and reach millions of homes. We also operate rainn.org and social media platforms to provide information about sexual violence, connect people to support, and engage with communities about these issues. Through a national speakers bureau and other community activities, RAINN is able to mobilize the public to share important information about preventing and recovering from sexual violence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th 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: -13.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $21.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $524K · 10 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $913K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.