Dmv Petri Dish

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883299914
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Fairfax, VA, USA
Phone
5407356874
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
General Science

Reported finances

Revenue
$208
Expenses
$1,243
Assets
$9,328
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

  • Ulisses Santamaria (President)

People named in this filing

  • Ulisses Santamaria (President)
  • Kaan Turkmen (Trustee)
  • Alex Sathler (Trustee)

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

DMV Petri Dish supports support early-stage innovators in the D.C. Area through our community by having places to meet, form teams, and get help.

What it reported doing in 2025

-Research - We have our own research team at DMV Petri Dish. They perform research studies on: Neurofibromatosis (rare disease), Cancer research Who are our researchers? Current Scientists at Universities, Nontraditional Scientists (non-university), High School and College Students looking for experience/opportunity - Community - We host a variety of community events for networking and learning opportunities. Roster of Meetup Group: Petri Dish Bio, NOVA Code and Coffee, Montgomery County Code and Coffee, DC Code and Coffee, NOVA Python Meetup, Bethesda Data Science. - Startup Support - We conduct the Pitch Labs Program: Where new entrepreneurs give their first pitches for us in front of an audience of entrepreneurs, working professionals, and more. The audience then gives feedback and suggestions on their pitch. Consulting for startups: Help connect startups to tech professionals and scientific experts who can help them overcome problems or learn more about their area of interest. We help connect startups to regional organizations who also support startups in different ways.

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 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -497.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.5; rating input score 89; 89th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.