Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463524074
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Engineering and Technology
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,360
- Expenses
- $114,822
- Assets
- $61,237
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANA GOWARD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DANA GOWARD (PRESIDENT)
- GREG WINFREE (CHAIRMAN OF)
- KIM PAINTER (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
The mission of resilient navigation and timing foundation is to promote wide area resilient navigation and timing ("rnt") worldwide. (note this is sometimes referred to as wide area position, navigation and timing services or "pnt services," but in this explanation, we will use "rnt," except when citing other sources.) as part of this we support the recommendations of the president's space- based positioning, navigation, and timing advisory board, upon which our president and two other board members served. These recommendations are generally summarized as protect frequencies used for navigation and timing signals, toughen end use devices to better resist interference, and augment gps/gnss signals with alternative sources of navigation and timing information. Navigation and timing systems are essential to a wide variety of transportation, information, communication, power distribution, and other critical infrastructure. These systems also are important to a broad spectrum of other econ
What it reported doing in 2025
Public and leader education efforts included: published 20 articles in 7 media outlets gave interviews and quoted in 15 major news outlets 207 blog posts reaching 10,000+ persons. 12 public appearances & presentations
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.8% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.