RESEARCH FOR ACTION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

V20Z

Classification

1000

Street

3675 MARKET STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• RFA ENVISIONS A JUST EDUCATION SYSTEM, WHERE ALL STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY LEARNERS FROM UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES, HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO THRIVE FROM PRE-K THROUGH POSTSECONDARY AND INTO THE WORKFORCE. RECOGNIZING RESEARCH AS A POWERFUL MECHANISM FOR ADVANCING EDUCATION SYSTEMS CHANGE, WE PARTNER WITH CHANGE AGENTS ON ACTIONABLE RESEARCH AND EVALUATION PROJECTS THAT INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT AND SCALE OF HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND POLICIES. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O).IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, RFA'S APPROXIMATELY 30 RESEARCHERS PARTNERED WITH MORE THAN 20 UNIQUE PARTNERS AND CLIENTS ACROSS THE UNITED STATESRANGING FROM DIRECT-SERVICE NONPROFITS TO PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS TO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND STATE SYSTEMS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, TO STATE AND LOCAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS, AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THROUGH THESE PARTNERSHIPS, RFA DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED OVER TWO DOZEN INNOVATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS YIELDING APPROXIMATELY 50 ACTIONABLE REPORTS DISTILLING EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS AND POLICY GUIDANCE. FURTHER, WE MAKE RESEARCH ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH ACCOMPANYING SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS, BLOGS, MEDIA CITATIONS, LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONY AND OTHER THOUGHT LEADERSHIP, DEMONSTRATING RFA'S IMPACT ON ENSURING ALL STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES CAN ACCESS HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES. AN ADDITIONAL MEASURE OF OUR EFFECTIVENESS IS THAT RFA IS FREQUENTLY ASKED TO CONDUCT REPEAT WORK FOR OUR CLIENTS AND PARTNERS, DEMONSTRATING THE VALUE AND UTILITY OF OUR RESEARCH ON PROGRAMMATIC AND POLICY DECISION-MAKING.

  Expenses $4,071,707 · Grants $147,906 · Revenue $2,026,604

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,230,199

  Expenses

  $5,440,645

  Contributions

  $3,159,861

  Grants paid

  $147,906

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,161,593

  Expenses

  $5,519,645

  Contributions

  $3,689,275

  Grants paid

  $89,296

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,193,674

  Expenses

  $5,723,436

  Contributions

  $2,276,434

  Grants paid

  $116,077

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,536,798

  Expenses

  $5,382,494

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,101,667

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,214,535

  Expenses

  $4,496,978

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,562,128

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,330,392

  Expenses

  $4,686,831

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,070,616

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,088,440

  Expenses

  $5,061,697

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,915,479

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,972,257

  Expenses

  $5,076,731

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,364,454

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,764,867

  Expenses

  $4,017,176

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,510,466

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,485,765

  Expenses

  $3,607,084

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,466,427

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,308,326

  Expenses

  $3,723,049

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,559,423

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,319,498

  Expenses

  $3,479,765

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,868,083

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $4,987,944

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,125,996

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

  $147,906

  2024 · CO-PI OF RESEARCH PROJECT

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

  $116,077

  2022 · CO-PI OF RESEARCH PROJECT

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

  $89,296

  2023 · CO-PI OF RESEARCH PROJECT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• ASCENDIUM EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC

  $363,000

  2025 · GRANT, UNDERSTANDING HOW INCARCERATED LEARNERS EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION REFORMS

• PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2022 · LEADERSHIP

• ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA

  $41,524

  2023 · RESEARCH

• THE LENFEST INST FOR JOURNALISM SPE ASSET FUND OF THE PHL FOUNDATION

  $27,500

  2024 · (E) = $27,500

• ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA

  $19,323

  2024 · RESEARCH

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