CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC

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2025 · Form 990 · revenue $5.6M · expenses $6.7M · assets $7.3M

EIN

22-2306795

Address

3965 RENSCH RD, AMHERST, NY 14228-2743

Website

WWW.CENTERFORINQUIRY.ORG

NTEE code

A70 Humanities Organizations (Arts, Culture and Humanities) published (IRS Business Master File)

FURP topic

science: research education (from its 990 text; the topic index)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

April 2001 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

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Mission

TO SPONSOR PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES THAT ADVANCE HUMANISM AND SKEPTICISM. TO ADVOCATE AND DEFEND A NONRELIGIOUS LIFE STANCE ROOTED IN SCIENCE, NATURALISTIC PHILOSOPHY, HUMANIST ETHICS, AND TO SERVE AND SUPPORT ADHERENTS OF THAT LIFE STANCE. TO PUBLISH SCHOLARLY MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS AND TO HOLD EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES TO INCREASE PUBLIC APPRECIATION FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION. TO EDUCATE CONSUMERS REGARDING AND PROTECT CONSUMERS FROM PSEUDOSCIENCE. COSPONSERED THE SCOPES TRIAL CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE IN CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE JULY 18-20, 2025.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

12 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

23 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• CENTER FOR INQUIRY DEVELOPMENT FUND Amherst, NY · 15 people in common (Andy Thomson, Azharuddin Majeed, Barry A Kosmin) · related organization (Schedule R)
• CENTER FOR INQUIRY HOLDING CORPORATION Amherst, NY · 13 people in common (Andy Thomson, Azharuddin Majeed, Barry A Kosmin) · related organization (Schedule R)
• CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC Amherst, NY · 4 people in common (Barry A Kosmin, Barry Karr, Edward Tabash)
• RICHARD DAWKINS FOUNDATION FOR Washington, DC · 4 people in common (Andy Thomson, David Cowan, Richard Dawkins)
• COMMITTEE FOR SKEPTICAL INQUIRY INC Amherst, NY · 4 people in common (Barry A Kosmin, Barry Karr, Edward Tabash)

Funders of this organization

16 grantors reported grants to this organization, $14,206,773 in all, tax years 2010 to 2025. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

State business registration

• CENTER FOR INQUIRY NY, Employee benefit plan sponsor (Form 5500), Filed for plan year 2025
• CENTER FOR INQUIRY, INC. FL, Foreign nonprofit corporation (FORNP), Active, formed 2005-08-17

The same business name in the same state, from the state’s official registry data.

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Matched by name (and state) or EIN only; a shared name is not proof of the same person or organization.