Nonprofit · EIN 26-4739791
SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Also known as ELLEN WEISS
Tax-exempt · ROCKVILLE, MD 20854
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $765,553 | $1,087,454 | -$321,901 | $533,541 | $45,066 | $488,475 |
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $729,073 | $1,161,441 | -$432,368 | $859,383 | $49,007 | $810,376 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $623,585 | $990,036 | -$366,451 | $1,305,640 | $62,896 | $1,242,744 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $220,200
- Program service revenue
- $490,250
- Investment income
- $131
- Royalties
- $53,787
- Other revenue
- $54,972
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $95,400
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $196,826
- Other salaries and wages
- $143,001
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $406,856
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Depreciation
- $979
- Program services (functional)
- $875,720
- Management and general (functional)
- $196,233
- Fundraising (functional)
- $15,501
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $859,383
- Total assets, end of year
- $533,541
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $45,066
- Net assets, end of year
- $488,475
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $1,686
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $448,475
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $40,000
- Gross receipts
- $765,553
- Employees
- 3
- Volunteers
- 420
- Year formed
- 2009
- State of legal domicile
- IL
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 December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellen Weiss | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $196,826 |
| Beth Tipton | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Lindsay Page | PAST-PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Beth Boulay | PRESIDENT-ELECT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Jessica Heppen | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Rekha Balu | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Matthew Springer | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Darryl Hill | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Luke Miratrix | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Akisha Osei Sarfo | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Drew Bailey | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jimmy Kim | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dania Francis | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jason Snipes | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Norma Ming | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
5 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vivian Wong | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Julie Edmunds | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Angela Estacion | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jessaca Spybrook | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Weiss | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 17 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellen Weiss | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $195,368 |
| Lindsay Page | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| James Kemple | PAST-PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Tipton | PRESIDENT-ELECT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Jessica Heppen | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Rekha Balu | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Bethany Miller | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Beth Boulay | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Luke Miratrix | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Akisha Osei Sarfo | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Drew Bailey | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Daryll Hill | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dania Francis | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| James Kim | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Matthew Springer | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jason Snipes | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Norma Ming | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 17 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellen Weiss | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $188,648 | $18,147 |
| Lindsay Page | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| James Kemple | PAST-PRESIDENT Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Tipton | PRESIDENT-ELECT Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Stuart | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Rekha Balu | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Bethany Miller | president-elect Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Beth Boulay | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Ruth Neild | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Larry Hedges | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| David Myers | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Daryll Hill | President Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Greg Duncan | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| James Kim | Director Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Matthew Springer | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jason Snipes | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Norma Ming | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 1201 SEVEN LOCKS RD STE 360 # 1009, ROCKVILLE, MD 20854-6901
- In care of
- % ROB GREENWALD
- Mailing address (990-N for 2009)
- 2040 SHERIDAN ROAD, EVANSTON IL 602080855
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- Beth Tipton, 1201 SEVEN LOCKS ROAD 360, ROCKVILLE, MD 20854
- Principal officer (990-N for 2009)
- ROB GREENWALD, C/O SREE, 2040 SHERIDAN ROAD, EVANSTON IL 602080855
- Signed the 990
- Beth Tipton, President
- Phone
- (301) 578-2118
- Website
- www.sree.org
- Return prepared by
- IL NFP AUDIT AND TAX LLP
Mission
THE ORGANIZATION WORKS TO ADVANCE AND DISSEMINATE RESEARCH ON CAUSAL EFFECTS OF EDUCATION PRACTICES, INTERVENTIONS, PROGRAMS, AND POLICIES.
Program accomplishments
- Conferences - Develops the supply of high quality research and disseminates findings to practitioners through the annual conference. Research highlighted by the Organization includes rigorously designed predictive studies of educational interventions and descriptive studies that model the distribution of educational outcomes.Expenses $562,007 · revenue $334,560
- Membership - Provides a forum to engage with a community of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students united in a desire to advance education research.Expenses $201,964 · revenue $138,975
- Summer Fellows - Provides members with the opportunity to have a research question answered by an educational researcher.Expenses $76,240 · revenue $9,500
- Publications - Aims to provide the research community, policy makers, and educational professionals with a reliable source of information on advances in research on cause-and-effect relations important for educational practice. The Organization sponsors the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.Expenses $22,847 · revenue $1,290
- Professional Development - Provides courses, workshops and videos, software and other tools to aid in the professional development of practitioners.Expenses $12,662 · revenue $5,925
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 December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 26-4739791
- 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
- 2010
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Education (B034)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $533,541
- Income (IRS master file)
- $765,553
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | $765,553 | $1,087,454 | $533,541 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2024 | $729,073 | $1,161,441 | $859,383 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $623,585 | $990,036 | $1,305,640 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $1,520,057 | $763,604 | $1,662,185 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-N for 2009 Officer: ROB GREENWALD | December 31, 2009 | ≤ $50,000 receipts | – | – | e-Postcard |
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 26-4739791).
Questions about SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
- What is the EIN of SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS is 26-4739791.
- Is SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2010.
- Are donations to SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS 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 SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names Beth Tipton.
- Who are the officers and directors of SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 20 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $196,826 (Ellen Weiss, Executive Dir.).
- How much revenue does SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $765,553, expenses of $1,087,454 and total assets of $533,541 at year end.
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