Byte Amusement Group Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
820846806
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Brandon, FL, USA
Phone
7277538253
Rating
37
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,717
Expenses
$49,860
Assets
$13,380
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LEON ESSEX (DIRECTOR - PRESIDENT)
  • WILLIAM STILLWELL (DIRECTOR - VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LEON ESSEX (DIRECTOR - PRESIDENT)
  • WILLIAM STILLWELL (DIRECTOR - VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MATTHEW HATHAWAY (DIRECTOR - SECRETARY)

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

The mission is to educate the history, art, and science of arcade, pinball, and early computers through local events.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization's main, and only, program revenue is from an annual event held in Orlando, FL. This event allows collectors to bring items that are to be shown allowing the public to be educated on the art, science and history of pinball, arcade and early home computing. Guests are flown in to talk about their history with the creation and building of these displays of art.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.