The Rna Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841222776
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3016347166
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Biological & Life Sciences
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,965,555
- Expenses
- $2,102,687
- Assets
- $3,776,463
- Liabilities
- $181,970
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTIAN BAKER (CEO)
- FATIMA GEBAUER (PRESIDENT)
- SANDRA WOLIN (PRESIDENT-PA)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTIAN BAKER (CEO): $56,277 total reported compensation
- KELLY CAMPBELL (CFO): $20,000 total reported compensation
- HUA LOU (SECRETARY): $3,279 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 rna society (the "society") is a membership organization operating for the purpose of promoting and developing the field of rna research. The society generates revenues primarily from membership dues, publisher support, and holding an annual meeting.
What it reported doing in 2024
The rna society journal is a scientific publication which serves as an international forum for publishing original reports on rna research in the broadest sense. It is a monthly journal which provides rapid publication of significant original research in all areas of rna structure and function in eukaryotic, prokaryotic, and viral systems.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $31.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 58.8%; rating input score 59; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.