Reston Study Center
Legal name: Reston Study Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541826300
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Reston, VA, United States
- Phone
- (703) 689-3433
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $507,693
- Expenses
- $702,752
- Assets
- $4,478,274
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eric Heil (President and Director)
People named in this filing
- Peter Bancroft (VP and Director)
- John Fagan (Sec./Treas. and Director)
- Stephen Gabriel (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Reston Study Center’s programs encourage men to develop the personal qualities needed to integrate faith, study, work and friendship. Spiritual activities at the Reston Study Center are conducted by the Prelature of Opus Dei. Reston Study Center opened in 2005. Our activities provide direction and encouragement for men to approach their family, work and social responsibilities in a supernatural context: to view them as a means of serving God and others, a framework for growth in holiness and a way to contribute to the common good of society. We strive to instill an awareness that life is a daily human and supernatural adventure in which the pursuit of truth and goodness is a challenging but rewarding endeavor. We foster the supernatural confidence of men who realize that God is their Father who cares personally for them. Spiritual activities at Reston Study Center are conducted by...
What it reported doing in 2025
Reston Study Center, through its volunteers and resident staff of priests and laymen, conducted over 50 Catholic spiritual retreats and days of recollection with 20-40 participants per event. It also provided counseling to over 200 people and conducted over 75 classes of Catholic doctrine and morality with 10-20 participants per class. In addition it conducted enrichment seminars for college students and young adults and clubs for elementary and Junior High school students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.7%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.37; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $532K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $243K reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- 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.