Robertson Research Institute

Analysis

Robertson Research Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Grand Rapids, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Robertson Research Institute reported income of $366k and spending of $350k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $281k to $366k (+30%), an average of +6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 119%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Robertson Research Institute sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Great Commission Outreach ($366k), Story House Ministries Inc ($366k) and Rhode Island Association for Infant Mental Health ($366k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $120k against liabilities of $130k, net assets of -$9,785.