Rational Games Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043508656
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6175132252
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $158,533
- Expenses
- $171,293
- Assets
- $38,436
- Liabilities
- $41,468
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR MARK YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DR MARK YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
- RAYMOND CYR (TREASURER)
- ANTONIA SIMON (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Dispute resolution
What it reported doing in 2024
Original research: we seek to work with like-minded academic and nonprofit institutions in order to engage in both theoretical and applied projects that are congruent with our general philosophy. Our aim is to further state-of-the-art approaches to negotiation theory, mediation and conflict resolution.skill-building: we want to help develop and disseminate practical know-how in the field of negotiation research, through training, independent consulting and publications, with an aim to help our clients better manage conflict and reach more optimal agreements in situations involving divergence of interests, commitments and identities.charitable contributions: we also want to "walk our talk", by actively supporting those who are putting these ideas into practice. Each year, rational games therefore makes substantive pro bono and financial contributions to organizations engaged effectively in the pursuit of conflict resolution in a manner congruent with our approach, whether on a global, national or local scale, in the nonprofit sector.
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 97% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.9%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 58.2%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.08; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.9% of revenue deployed · 58.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.