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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by POLARIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$450,235
Total expenses
$677,577
Contributions and grants received
$450,235
Grants paid
$150,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$324,777
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$324,777
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$418,791
Management and general expenses
$187,688
Fundraising expenses
$71,098
Program service expenses (Part III)
$418,791

Program services were 61.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ruairi Donnelly

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $241,632
    From this org
    $223,019
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,613
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $223,019
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,613
    Filer's total
    $241,632

  • Stefan Torges

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Jonas Vollmer - end 06-2024

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Tobias Pulver

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Daniel Kestenholz - treas beg 08-20

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amrit Sidhu-Brar - end 08-2024

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Independent compensation consultant
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
  • 9 · Followed the rebuttable-presumption procedure

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 8: Amounts reported on 990 VII pursuant to initial contract exemption described in Regs
The compensation reported for the Executive Director consists of an annual base salary and a one-time fixed signing bonus, subject to the initial contract exception described in Treasury Regulations section 53.4958-4a3. Specifically, this represents the first compensation arrangement between the organization and the Executive Director who was previously unrelated to the organization and was therefore not in a position to exercise substantial influence over its affairs as defined in Treasury Regulations section 53.4958-3. Both the base salary and bonus are fixed amounts negotiated based on relevant compensation data and approved by an independent Board.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
11 July 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202541929349301534

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