Respiraworks

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850627673
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Tulsa, OK, USA
Phone
6506836800
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Lung Disease

Reported finances

Revenue
$100
Expenses
$610
Assets
$2,661
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ethan Chaleff (Director & President)

People named in this filing

  • Curtis Kline (Director & Treasurer)
  • Ethan Chaleff (Director & President)
  • Edwin Chiu (Director & Secretary)

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

RespiraWorks was formed in response to the COVID-19 crisis to design and build a ventilator with features that specifically target COVID-19 patients and that can be assembled in countries with developing economies. Beyond the pandemic, RespiraWorks will continue to refine its ventilator design and design other medical devices that are difficult for target countries' hospitals to acquire.

What it reported doing in 2025

Continued collaboration with open source designs, software, test results and integration consulting to interested parties in India and Tunisia. The ventilator designs continue to be refined and have not been used in a patient environment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -510%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.36; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -60.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -71.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -61.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.