Fablab Nonprofit

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824619891
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Tacoma, WA, USA
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$115,874
Expenses
$115,029
Assets
$17,367

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Anita Saito (President of Board)
  • William Cargill (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Anita Saito (President of Board)
  • William Cargill (Vice President)
  • William Gray (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

FABLAB Education is dedicated to expanding opportunities for experiential STEAM Science Technology Engineering Art and Math education and to better communities through training individuals in innovation critical thinking and design through hands-on and digital fabrication. Fablab Education provided education and hands on training to communities of untapped potential.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide STEAM demonstrations at community events provide classes workshops camps clubs and after school ELO programming in person and virtually in computer programming digital and CNC fabrication engineering electronics robotics and drones with a focus on education programming for girls women and communities of untapped potential. Fabricated and distributed free STEAM project kits with supplemental instruction videos to families and youth programs Provided fabrication services to area nonprofits and BIPOC Arts organizations and artists 5000+.individuals served

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.3%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 0.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $115K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.