Bdpa Education and Technology Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521806848
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Little Elm, TX, USA
Phone
8003435015
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,425
Expenses
$37,379
Assets
$187,684
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

  • Rico Singleton (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Vincent Briley (Chairman)
  • Rico Singleton (Executive Director)
  • Shelli Johnson (Treasurer)

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

BETF funds BDPA's Student Information Technology Education and Scholarship (SITES) program, providing year-round technology training to minority youth from historically disadvantaged communities at no cost to participants. Programs include the High School Computer Competition (HSCC, est. 1986), Youth Technology Camp, IT Showcase, Mobile App Showcase, Data Science Academy, Cloud Academy, Robotics, eSports, and AI Academy. BETF also administers the BETF Corporate Scholarship Program supporting high school and college students pursuing technology degrees.

What it reported doing in 2025

BETF funds BDPA's SITES program through chapters nationwide, serving minority youth at no cost. In 2024, BETF disbursed $5,000 in scholarships to student recipients and supported BDPA's national technology education programs including HSCC, IT Showcase, Mobile App Showcase, Data Science Academy, Cloud Academy, Robotics, eSports, and AI Academy.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 45
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.6%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 21.4%; rating input score 21

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -178.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.02; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 64.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 64.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.6% of revenue deployed · 21.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.