The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 046078351
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 2127523200
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,539,784
- Expenses
- $2,358,193
- Assets
- $30,538,339
- Liabilities
- $971,129
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH D MANN (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL A MORSE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL A MORSE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $384,384 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The churchill foundation provides scholarships for graduate students in the sciences, engineering and mathematics at the university of cambridge, england.
What it reported doing in 2025
The foundation awarded eighteen (18) churchill scholarships to outstanding american college and university graduates for one year of study and research in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics at churchill college, the university of cambridge. The foundation also awarded nine special research grants to churchill scholars and awarded five scholarships for the churchill summer bursary for undergraduate students of churchill college, cambridge, to do summer research in the united states.the foundation published its annual newsletter churchill news and the annual donors' report.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 82% 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.5%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.1%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.95; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 96.5% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $384K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.