The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811868933
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2125089664
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,902
- Expenses
- $44,284
- Assets
- $69,252
- Liabilities
- $3,818
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRUCE BERMAN (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- BRUCE BERMAN (President & CEO)
- ADAM MOSSOFF (Director)
- KEITH BERGELT (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This entity is an educational organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the impact of intellectual property on individuals and businesses. It tracks attitudes towards patents, copyrights and trademarks, and seeks to convey accurate information and facilitate intellectual property awareness. Cipu provides and education framework for understanding for how ip rights encourage sharing, promote fair competition and create jobs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Cipu researches, produces and hosts understanding ip matters, a leading podcast in the ip field. 2024 included its 4th season. Cipu also researches, produces, markets and presents the ip awareness summit. 2024 was the 7th ip summit. It was held at the northwestern universitys kellogg school of management. Cipu researches, designs, develops content for and maintains three websites relevant to its mission, as well as a number of social media accounts. It has also produced six summary reports of ip business trends. In addition, cipu is engaged in development activities and identifying and maintaining partner relationships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.