Art Technically

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
861905096
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Bartlett, TN, USA
Phone
8125737204
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12

Reported finances

Revenue
$30,120
Expenses
$8,997
Assets
$27,247
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lily Donaldson (Executive Director)
  • Grace Kigaita (President of Board)
  • Leelina Dagim (Vice President of Board)

People named in this filing

  • Lily Donaldson (Executive Director)
  • Grace Kigaita (President of Board)
  • Leelina Dagim (Vice President of Board)

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

Art Technically is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides STEM, STEAM, and arts education programs and resources for K-12 students and educators, with a focus on expanding access for underserved and underrepresented communities. Activities include workshops, free educator resources and professional development, classroom materials and book donations, and event planning and support. Since 2018, the organization has served more than 20,000 students, educators, and community members.

What it reported doing in 2025

Expenses for hosting two educator professional development sessions at the Space Exploration Educators Conference (SEEC) 2025 and partial expenses for hosting the same two educator professional development sessions at SEEC 2026. Workshop 1 was Astrobotany: Growing Plants in Space where educators learned about cross-curricular connections to NASA's plant science program including hands-on activities with LED lights and hydroponic system. In Workshop 2, educators learned about our nonprofit's NASA Data Science resources and how to incorporate open NASA data into science and Computer Science classrooms. At SEEC 2025, 36 educators participated with at least 1,750 students indirectly reached through those educators.

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 90% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 49
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26.2%; rating input score 26
  • Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 70.1%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.03; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 195.5% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 126.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26.2% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.