Wright Paleohydrological Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841469411
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3034438607
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Science and Technology N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,087
- Expenses
- $7,339
- Assets
- $396,709
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENNETH R WRIGHT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KENNETH R WRIGHT (PRESIDENT)
- RUTH M WRIGHT (VICE PRES)
- GWEN DOOLEY (SECRETARY/TR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary purpose is to conduct engineering and scientific research to advance our knowledge of water handling, use and management by ancient people.
What it reported doing in 2024
Schwenandaw kyaung(golden monastery): assignment through world monument fund in myanmar to protect monastic complex including teakwood buildings from drainage and insect problems due to environmental conditions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.8%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 57.6%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 54.05; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.8% of revenue deployed · 57.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 27/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.