Space Infrastructure Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200067771
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone
7192294252
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Physical & Earth Sciences,

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$48,181
Expenses
$30,428
Assets
$17,882
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Frederick A Slane (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Frederick A Slane (Executive Director)
  • Gael Squibb (Director)
  • William Raynor (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

Education on, development of, and advocacy for open technical standards for space systems for the betterment of humanity. Education, development and advocacy promote the application of open standards for space systems and their use.

What it reported doing in 2025

SIF supports the National Air and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the Office of Space Commerce and industry at large in the development of open space standards. In 2024 emphasis was for Space Exploration, Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO), On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) and future space science programs. NASA DARPA, DoD, DoC and industry believe RPO and OOS, and open standards are emergent commercial mission areas and that the US can become a dominant commercial provider. SIF provides expertises on the standards development process within national and international standards development organizations, and recommends consensus positions in the development of industry consensus with US and international industry.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.8%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 36.8%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 35; 35th 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: -28% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.8% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.