Unjournal Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993427647
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Camden, DE, USA
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Social Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,142
- Expenses
- $209,523
- Assets
- $62,274
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- David Reinstein (Founder and Director)
- Davit Jintcharadze (Operations lead and treasurer)
- Gavin Taylor (Co-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
The Unjournal commissions and publishes open expert evaluations of quantitative social science research with substantial implications for global priorities providing structured public feedback and ratings to help make research more rigorous and impactful support a more efficient alternative to traditional peer review and help impact-focused funders and policymakers make better-evidenced decisions.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Unjournal evaluates quantitative social science research with substantial implications for global priorities including economics global health animal welfare and AI governance helping make research more rigorous providing an efficient alternative to traditional peer review and supporting evidence-driven philanthropy and policy. Field specialists and a management committee prioritize candidate papers and projects; an evaluation manager recruits two or more expertevaluators drawing on our vetted pool of 200-plus researchers most with PhDs approximately half economists while actively seeking specialists whose expertise closely matches the research under evaluation. Evaluators provide detailed peer-review-style assessments with quantitative ratings published openly at unjournal. org and PubPub. By end of 2025 we completed 53 evaluation packages comprising over 100 expert reviews. This process also builds publicly shared guidelines and curated prioritized research resources
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 62.2%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -317.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -153.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -106.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 62.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.