DC Peers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814176621
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025961985
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Autism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $153,978
- Expenses
- $149,028
- Assets
- $57,551
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Catherine Robertson (President)
People named in this filing
- Nico Ekanem (Trustee)
- Monica Martinez (Secretary)
- Catherine Robertson (President)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
DC Peers' mission is to create social growth, connection, and learning opportunities that respect and affirm neurodiversity. In our free and low-cost programs for teens and adults, we bring neurodiverse groups together to socialize and to learn from each other about our differences, ourselves, and how autism and other neurological differences affect our interactions with each other. Our new drop-in community space is also offering a unique, neurodiversity-affirming "third place" to autistic and neurodivergent teens and adults.
What it reported doing in 2024
Teen Programs: Despite losing 3 months to our move and the delay in building out our new space, DC Peers ran free and low-cost social, gaming, and arts programs for neurodivergent teens, including Middle and High School Social Meetups, online Discord and Minecraft gaming groups, One-Day Movie Making, RPG One-Shots, and the teen Art & Neurodiversity program in partnership with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Approximately 115 teens participated across 7 programs between September 2024 and June 2025. (See Schedule O, Statement 4.)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $108K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.