Bcauseican

Legal name: Bcauseican Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
474634990
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Greenbelt, MD, US
Phone
(202) 579-0643
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$711,931
Expenses
$797,516
Assets
$61,729
Liabilities
$77,577

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ron Nicholson (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Ron Nicholson (CEO): $110,000 total reported compensation
  • Michael Batts (Treasurer): $88,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Closing the digital divide by bringing STEM, coding, AI, and technology education to underserved communities—especially youth and seniors.

What it reported doing in 2025

BCAUSEICAN GROW - Provides computer coding instruction to elementary school students. GROW program participants graduate with a Certification in SCRATCH Coding-one of the leading developmental coding languages, currently taught in over 200 countries. BCAUSEICAN RISE - Provides computer coding instruction to middle school students. RISE program participants graduate with a Certification in PYTHON Coding-the leading coding language in the Information Technology industry, used in Data Science and Cybersecurity. BCAUSEICAN SOAR - Provides coding instruction to high school students. SOAR program participants graduate with a Certification in Cloud Computing, PYTHON, or JAVA Coding-all highly sought after in the job market, which allows students to secure internships and jobs in the industry ahead of their counterparts. BCAUSEICAN THRIVE - Program for adults and seniors offers technology workshops classes. These classes are typically held in the evening for one hour each week. Training is customized based on need and covers topics ranging from learning how to create an email account, to more advance training on how to use applications like ParentVue, Google Classroom, Class Dojo, Google Meet, Microsoft Office, and Zoom. BCAUSEICAN TEACH - Provides a highly engaging hands on full-day training to teachers and school administrators that allows professionals to incorporate STEM/Coding based language, concepts, and activities within the daily lesson plans. BCAUSEICAN INTELLIGENCE - The orgnization's newest program, delivers bilingual, community-based AI and data science education that introduces K-12 students to machine learning, ethical AI, natural language processing, and neural networks through project-based learning. Designed with collaborative input from the University of Maryland, Morgan State University, and the Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS), INTELLIGENCE also includes an intergenerational component where adults and seniors learn alongside and from youth.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 81% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 67%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.26; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 39% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 75% of revenue deployed · 67% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $534K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.