Riverside Research
Legal name: Riverside Research Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132593244
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Fairfax, VA, US
- Phone
- 703.522.2310
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $286,600,214
- Expenses
- $182,555,212
- Assets
- $322,595,037
- Liabilities
- $48,369,021
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- S R OMICK PHD (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- S R OMICK PHD (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $1,144,335 total reported compensation
- K POWERS (CFO, TREASURER, & CORP SEC): $571,671 total reported compensation
- M BAREFOOT (VP BU DIRECTOR): $517,836 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Riverside Research is an independent, nonprofit company that works alongside mission partners to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) and Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) to improve acquisition, program management, technical management, and research and development activities for U.S. government customers.
What it reported doing in 2025
The institute engages in and supports scientific research, on behalf of the u.s. Government and its agencies as well as the national institute of health, on various classified and unclassified programs in a variety of areas including radar and cyber technology.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.3%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $174.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 25 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.8M reported
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 26 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.