Trib Research
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861463575
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Arcata, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7074979165
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,188
- Expenses
- $31,471
- Assets
- $12,321
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Samantha Kannry (President)
- Samuel Rizza (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Samantha Kannry (President)
- Samuel Rizza (Vice-President)
- Jeff Abrams (Secretary)
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
The specific purposes of this corporation are (1) to advance the science of aquatic ecosystems and the species that inhabit them, (2) to champion scientific research with the goal of long-term conservation of our natural environment and native species, (3) to promote local farms and food within the community as a means to build robust ecosystems and local resiliency.
What it reported doing in 2025
Investigating hybridization and diversity in Northern California watersheds to inform restoration decisions. Field research conducted (ongoing), lab work done to explain field data, analysis to investigate results (ongoing). This benefits land managers making decisions and the people that recreate and live near the lands.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.6%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 26%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -70.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -48.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.6% of revenue deployed · 26% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.