The Mathew Forbes Romer Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 650849159
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Delray Beach, FL, USA
- Phone
- 5614770337
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,982
- Expenses
- $168,160
- Assets
- $279,030
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kevin Romer (President)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Romer (President)
- Lisajane Romer (Sec'y/Treas.)
- Allan Spiro (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Education and research of children's genetic diseases of the brain. Our work spans three pillars: Research of treatments and cures, Education and genetic screening, and Nursing school educational programs
What it reported doing in 2025
Research of Treatments and Cures: Grants for partnership with University of Massachusetts College of Medicine and National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases.
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
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $139K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.