The Rahus Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 580411116
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sebastopol, CA, US
- Phone
- 707-228-6557
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Engineering and Technology
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,595
- Expenses
- $62,272
- Assets
- $98,520
- Liabilities
- $3,534
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rich Hadley (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Tor Allen (Exec. Dir/ Pres)
- Rich Hadley (Vice President)
- Eric Newell (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
To accelerate the implementation of resource efficient technologies and practices through research, development, demonstration, education and policy change.
What it reported doing in 2025
SOLAR SCHOOLHOUSE PROGRAM: INCLUDES TRAINING TEACHERS, CONDUCTING WORKSHOPS,.DEVELOPING AND PROVIDING SOLAR ENERGY EDUCATION MATERIALS (BOOKS, DVDS, SOLAR CELL SETS). WWW.SOLARSCHOOLHOUSE.ORG Solar Projects in other Communities, with Community Education Projects such as Sebastopol Carbon Conversations, raising awareness and improving community resilience.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 80%; 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: 17.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.