Synaptics Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454694046
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6618723408
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Brain Disorders Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,419
- Expenses
- $166,808
- Assets
- $55,249
- Liabilities
- $10,125
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK J ASHLEY (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
- NICHOLAS A ASHLEY (DIRECTOR/VICE PRESIDENT/SE)
People named in this filing
- MARK J ASHLEY (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
- NICHOLAS A ASHLEY (DIRECTOR/VICE PRESIDENT/SE)
- LINDSAY ASHLEY (DIRECTOR/CFO)
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
Further tbi treatment knowledge
What it reported doing in 2025
Tbi & stroke mri study of structural & functional brain changes in patients following post-acute rehabilitation
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
MIXED - 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: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.9%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 4
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -37.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -36.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 54.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.9% of revenue deployed · 4.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.