The Recreation and Welfare Association of the National Institutes of Health Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520686893
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015942411
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $449,998
- Expenses
- $313,426
- Assets
- $229,166
- Liabilities
- $1,230
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID BROWNE (CEO)
- DONOVAN KUEHN (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- LUCIANA CROTTI ESPINOZA (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID BROWNE (CEO): $36,062 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 association provides affordable, top-quality, and well directed services and programs that are diversified, beneficial, and focused on enhancing the health and well-being of the nih staff, patients, patient's families, and the nih and national oceanic and atmosheric administration (noaa) communities. The nih r&w team of dedicated, hardworking employees and volunteers accomplishes this mission by providing and offering their communities a variety of retail, fitness, leisure, and charity fundraising activities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The association provides affordable, top-quality, and well directed services and programs that are diversified, beneficial, and focused on enhancing the health and well-being of the nih staff, patients, patient's families, and the nih and noaa communities. The nih r&w team of dedicated, hardworking employees and volunteers accomplishes this mission by providing and offering their communities a variety of retail, fitness, leisure, and charity fundraising activities such as fitness classes, personal training, research festival, farmers markets, vending & food trucks, bazaar, table shows, and nih relays.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.4%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.4% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $275K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.