America on Tech Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465336001
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9172543194
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,387,292
- Expenses
- $4,574,195
- Assets
- $11,602,243
- Liabilities
- $2,912,438
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EVIN ROBINSON (PRESIDENT)
- JESSICA SANTANA (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA SANTANA (CEO): $256,584 total reported compensation
- EVIN ROBINSON (PRESIDENT): $252,327 total reported compensation
- KYLIE REPASY (VP OF PROGRAMS): $179,123 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Prepare the next generation of technology leaders from underestimated communities by helping students obtain degrees and careers in technology
What it reported doing in 2025
Alumni network includes:1)access tech is a jobs and internships program for aot alumni.2)peer mentors are paid jobs for alumni within aot's progrms that provide them with work experience, leadership skills and opportunities to refine their technical abilities.3)alumni technology skills fellowships is a program adopted by employer partners for alumni looking to learn about specific careers in technology.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.1%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.54; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57% of revenue deployed · 67.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $257K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.