The Orrin G Hatch Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474823732
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 3853554380
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,097,945
- Expenses
- $917,640
- Assets
- $16,860,504
- Liabilities
- $3,116,975
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MATTHEW SANDGREN (EXECUTIVE DI): $241,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to create the hatch center for public policy to organize and make available senator hatch's papers from his service in the united states senate, as well as to promote discussions about and understanding of public policy at all levels of government.
What it reported doing in 2024
Center for bipartisanship and the legislative process the organization focuses on bipartisanship and civility through the senate project debate series, which brings together a senator from each side of the aisle for a respectful, policy-focused, televised debate on current issues. Other key programs include opportunities for learning and development for interns in Washington, dc. In 2024, the foundation, together with the edward m. Kennedy institute, hosted a bipartisan debate the fifth in the senate project debate series. Moderated by nbc news chief political analyst chuck todd, the debate was broadcast live on c-span and featured u.s. Senators bill cassidy (r-la) and sheldon whitehouse (d-ri).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 18.37; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 67.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $623K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $242K · 10 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.