Apprentice Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923189388
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2144984333
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,376
- Expenses
- $79,113
- Assets
- $31,966
- Liabilities
- $9,930
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kaitlin Siebert (President)
People named in this filing
- Kaitlin Siebert (President)
- Steven Monacelli (Treasurer)
- Bryan Lindsey (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Apprentice Inc. nonprofit organization focused on promoting arts, culture, humanities, and civic engagement. Incorporated in 2023 and established as a tax-exempt entity in 2024, it aims to support and enhance the cultural landscape of the community through various initiatives and programs at the Apprentice Creative Space, a third-space and community hub in Dallas.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided subsidized co-working memberships in our community space for 30+ writers/artists/nonprofits, free meeting space for book clubs and open mics, subsidized event rentals for over a dozen cultural and civic nonprofits, and free educational and cultural events to the public at large. In 2025 our space hosted more than 70 events that served more than 2500 people, including two literary festivals, writing workshops, book clubs, community engagement events, nonprofit fundraising events, and more.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.