Relationship Research Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912036699
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Fullerton, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7142404245
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,570
- Expenses
- $104,533
- Assets
- $24,380
- Liabilities
- $1,202
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alexandra Flecky (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Alexandra Flecky (CEO)
- Don Flecky (CFO)
- Doug Brown (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Relationship Research Foundation, Inc. provides programs designed to increase the well-being of children, families, and society by cultivating loving and lasting marriages, and keeping families intact. We offer educational programs and leader trainings in English and Spanish, which teach healthy relationship skills for: singles, marriage preparation, marriage enhancement, and to stabilize struggling marriages.
What it reported doing in 2025
Relationship Research Foundation, Inc. holds relationship skills and marriage education classes throughout California in both English and Spanish. We partner with several dozen partnering organizations, both faith-based and not, with hundreds of volunteers serving in the programs. Individuals and couples who participate in our programs have been shown to improve relationship skills and communication skills. The organization provides ongoing training, technical assistance and supervision to leaders and facilitators in the relationship and marriage education field.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.