Religious Research Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136104918
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- South Hamilton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9784682750
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,988
- Expenses
- $74,712
- Assets
- $269,684
- Liabilities
- $7,080
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWIN APONTE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- EDWIN APONTE (PRESIDENT)
- ERICA DOLLHOPF (SECRETARY)
- MATTHEW MANION (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the social scientific study of religion and connect religious leaders with researchers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conduct an annual professional meeting to share research and promote collaboration between academic researchers and applied researchers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.61; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.