Nonprofit · EIN 53-0220900
RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC
Tax-exempt · WASHINGTON, DC 20036
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 30, 2025 | 990 | $15,548,968 | $18,836,539 | -$3,287,571 | $81,143,391 | $22,960,358 | $58,183,033 |
| September 30, 2024 | 990 | $16,875,215 | $18,076,584 | -$1,201,369 | $85,903,959 | $23,688,162 | $62,215,797 |
| September 30, 2023 | 990 | $13,736,994 | $17,236,786 | -$3,499,792 | $81,861,351 | $24,130,368 | $57,730,983 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $10,323,948
- of which government grants
- $1,290,928
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $5,858,483
- Net rental income
- -$633,463
- Net gain from sales of assets
- $4,934,420
- Other revenue
- -$633,463
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $1,052,887
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $1,967,908
- Other salaries and wages
- $7,908,927
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $12,977,709
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $73,273
- Accounting fees
- $747,195
- Occupancy
- $775,006
- Travel
- $126,220
- Depreciation
- $117,596
- Program services (functional)
- $14,016,031
- Management and general (functional)
- $3,439,909
- Fundraising (functional)
- $1,380,599
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $85,903,959
- Total assets, end of year
- $81,143,391
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $22,960,358
- Net assets, end of year
- $58,183,033
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $19,525,509
- Publicly traded securities
- $50,595,067
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $42,326,953
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $15,856,080
- Gross receipts
- $20,973,718
- Employees
- 97
- Volunteers
- 22
- Year formed
- 1952
- State of legal domicile
- DC
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Pizer | President and CEO Officer | 35 | $486,790 | $86,856 |
| Carolyn Mollen | VP, Finance & Administration Officer | 35 | $324,459 | $52,904 |
| James Boyd | Associate VP, Research and Policy Engagement Officer | 35 | $321,542 | $49,173 |
| Alan Krupnick | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $307,851 | $61,570 |
| Karen Palmer | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $283,497 | $64,808 |
| Shannon Wulf Tregar | VP, Development and Institutional Strategy Officer | 35 | $271,512 | $50,058 |
| Margaret Walls | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $265,310 | $44,489 |
| Kristina Gawrgy | VP, Communications Officer | 35 | $245,063 | $41,846 |
| Kevin Rennert | Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $227,387 | $38,800 |
| Marc Hafstead | Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $199,860 | $38,086 |
| Carlos Martin | VP, Research and Policy Engagement Officer | 35 | $194,949 | $29,482 |
| Thomas Wrenn | Chief of Staff Officer | 35 | $187,362 | $24,545 |
| Susan F Tierney | Chair of the Board Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Robert N Stavins | Vice Chair of the Board Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Vicky A Bailey | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
20 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Bartlett | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Janet Clark | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| James Connaughton | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| H Russell Frisby | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jonathan Garfinkel | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Paula Glover | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Glenn Hubbard | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Barbara Kates-Garnick | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jeff Luse | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Mary Landrieu | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| William Pate | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Hilda Pinnix-Ragland | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jonathan Silver | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Christopher Smith | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Ramya Swaminathan | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Laura Taylor | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Catherine Wolfram | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Kyung-Ah Park | Chair, Audit and Compliance Committee(Oct-May) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Peter Kagan | Chair, Investment Committee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Richard Schmalensee | Chair Emeriti Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended September 30, 2024: 35 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard G Newell | President & CEO (OCT-APR) Trustee or director, Officer | 35 | $431,901 | $64,118 |
| William Pizer | President & CEO (MAY-SEPT) Trustee or director, Officer | 35 | $384,790 | $70,407 |
| Alan Krupnick | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $299,851 | $59,962 |
| Carolyn Mollen | VP, Fin. & Admin. Officer | 35 | $281,550 | $51,307 |
| Karen Palmer | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $263,602 | $63,783 |
| James Boyd | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $268,370 | $44,947 |
| Dennis Burtraw | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $251,710 | $58,269 |
| Shannon Wulf Tregar | VP, Dev. & Inst. Strategy Officer | 35 | $263,137 | $38,394 |
| Margaret Walls | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $257,727 | $42,976 |
| Kristina Gawrgy | VP, Communications Officer | 35 | $226,850 | $35,944 |
| Thomas Wrenn | Chief of Staff Officer | 35 | $170,801 | $18,819 |
| Susan F Tierney | Chair of the Board Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Robert N Stavins | Vice Chair of the Board Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Kagan | Chair, Investment Cmte. Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kyung-Ah Park | Chair, Audit & Compliance Cmte. Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| W Bowman Cutter | Chair Emeriti Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Schmalensee | Chair Emeriti Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Vicky A Bailey | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jay Bartlett | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Janet Clark | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| James Connaughton | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| H Russell Frisby | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jonathan Garfinkel | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Paula Glover | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Glenn Hubbard | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Barbara Kates-Garnick | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jeff Luse | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Landrieu | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| William Pate | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Hilda Pinnix-Ragland | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jonathan Silver | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Christopher Smith | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Ramya Swaminathan | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Laura Taylor | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Catherine Wolfram | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended September 30, 2023: 35 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard G Newell | President and CEO Trustee or director, Officer | 35 | $583,508 | $44,053 |
| William Pizer | VP, Research & Policy Engagement Officer | 35 | $311,952 | $32,571 |
| Alan Krupnick | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $294,354 | $28,445 |
| Shannon Wulf Tregar | VP, Development and Institutional Strategy Officer | 35 | $293,853 | $22,193 |
| Carolyn Mollen | VP, Finance & Administration Officer | 35 | $276,316 | $29,697 |
| Karen Palmer | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $256,135 | $35,238 |
| James Boyd | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $255,935 | $22,345 |
| Dennis Burtraw | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $246,175 | $31,662 |
| Michael Toman | Senior Fellow Highest-paid employee | 35 | $251,525 | $18,543 |
| Thomas Wrenn | Chief of Staff Officer | 35 | $144,680 | $6,466 |
| Ross Van der Linde | VP, Communications Officer | 35 | $89,541 | $3,247 |
| Kristina Gawrgy | VP, Communications Officer | 35 | $60,833 | $1,091 |
| Susan F Tierney | Chair of the Board Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Anthony Bernhardt | Co-Vice Chair of the Board Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Robert N Stavins | Co-Vice Chair of the Board Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| James K Asselstine | Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Vicky A Bailey | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Janet Clark | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| James Connaughton | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| H Russell Frisby | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jonathan Garfinkel | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Paula Glover | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Glenn Hubbard | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Peter Kagan | Chair, Investment Committee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Barbara Kates-Garnick | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jeff Luse | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Landrieu | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| William Pate | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kyung-Ah Park | Chair, Audit and Compliance Committee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jonathan Silver | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Ramya Swaminathan | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Catherine Wolfram | Board Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| W Bowman Cutter | Chair Emeriti Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lawrence H Linden | Chair Emeriti Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Richard Schmalensee | Chair Emeriti Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 1616 P STREET NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036-1434
- In care of
- % TERRI OBRIEN
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- William Pizer, 1616 P Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
- Signed the 990
- William Pizer, President & CEO
- Phone
- (202) 328-5000
- Website
- www.rff.org
- Return prepared by
- Aprio Advisory Group LLC
Mission
RFF's mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement.
Program accomplishments
- Confronting risks and building resilience: RFF evaluates the physical and economic impacts of energy and environmental policies, using data to assess risks and uncertainties at global, national, sectoral, and local scales, to ensure that global decision makers are equipped with the information they need to build resilience in their communities.Expenses $7,366,088 · grants $1,027,913
- Designing smart emissions reduction strategies: RFF analyzes policies to determine how they can be effective, efficient, equitable, beneficial to the economy, and able to achieve net-zero emissions goals from economy-wide solutions that send consistent economic signals to the marketplace to sector-specific strategies for all major areas of the economy.Expenses $5,133,397 · grants $24,975
- Communications: dissemination of research results in the form of research publications, resources magazine, resources radio, the RFF website, video, and other methods. Communications activities advance RFF's reputation for independent research and nonpartisanship while informing and shaping public debate. Research publications disseminated include working papers, reports, issue briefs, data tools, and research findings in peer-reviewed journals.Expenses $1,516,546
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in September, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | September 30, 2026 | February 16, 2027 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | September 30, 2025 | February 17, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | September 30, 2024 | February 18, 2025 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 53-0220900
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1984
- Accounting year ends
- September
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Environment (C050)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $81,143,391
- Income (IRS master file)
- $20,973,718
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | September 2025 | $15,548,968 | $18,836,539 | $81,143,391 | XML |
| 990 | September 2024 | $16,875,215 | $18,076,584 | $85,903,959 | XML |
| 990 | September 2023 | $13,736,994 | $17,236,786 | $81,861,351 | XML |
| 990 | September 2022 | $13,028,201 | $16,004,588 | $81,880,139 | IRS |
| 990 | September 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | September 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 53-0220900).
Questions about RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC
- What is the EIN of RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC is 53-0220900.
- Is RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1984.
- Are donations to RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending September 30, 2026) is due February 16, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended September 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC?
- The 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 names William Pizer.
- Who are the officers and directors of RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC?
- The 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 lists 35 people; 12 received compensation from the organization, the highest $486,790 (William Pizer, President and CEO).
- How much revenue does RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $15,548,968, expenses of $18,836,539 and total assets of $81,143,391 at year end.
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