Wright-Ingraham Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840601146
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-PF 2011, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7182309643
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $378,882
- Expenses
- $351,770
- Assets
- $34,728
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Catherine Ingraham (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Tal Beery (Executive Dir.): $58,013 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wright-Ingraham Institute conducts and applies multifaceted research through site-specific field study programs and works to model ways of understanding and interpreting complex systems that contribute to meaningful solutions in the service of society. Jasmine Singh,** Development Associate, is an environmental artist and nonprofit professional. She brings experience in administration, operations, CRM systems, data management, and stakeholder communications, with a focus on streamlining organizational systems to support mission-driven work. Her creative practice explores nervous system regulation and environmental connection through natural materials and multidisciplinary art-making. She is also the founder of the Shared Drafts Project, an independent literary journal dedicated to curating and publishing previously unpublished work by everyday writers. Across her administrative and...
What it reported doing in 2024
Concluded a participatory design and experiential education project with interdisciplinary experts focused on addressing the dust-on-snow challenge in the American Southwest. Led additional public educational projects focused on land health and water resources in the Southwest. Extended our network of practitioners and supporters.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 70.2% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $266K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.