Fair Use Building and Research Labs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272087231
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- North Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7325038227
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- General Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,978
- Expenses
- $68,405
- Assets
- $42,140
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Leonard Cacciatore (President)
- Richard Anderson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Leonard Cacciatore (President)
- Richard Anderson (Vice President)
- Eric Rivas (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
Community makerspace providing collaborative workspace, tools, education, and hands-on learning opportunities to foster technical, scientific, and artistic skills.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Makerspace Operations Operated a shared facility providing members with access to workspace, power tools, CNC equipment, 3D printers, electronics workstations, and fabrication materials throughout the year. Served approximately 50 active members, supporting a diverse community of makers, engineers, artists, and hobbyists engaged in collaborative hands-on projects. 2. Robotics Events and Public Outreach - Garden State Robotics League / Maker Faires Members co-founded the Garden State Robotics League and design and build combat robots competing in organized events. In 2025, FUBAR Labs participated in two major public maker events: Philadelphia Maker Faire 2025: approximately 1,000 public attendees reached Sussex County Maker Faire (October 2025): co-organized by FUBAR Labs, drawing over 500 public attendees, with a concurrent combat robotics tournament attracting approximately 150 participants and spectators Trenton Computer Festival 2025: members presented/spoke, reaching approximately 500 attendees Registration fees of $1,470.00 were collected for robot combat events across two days. Combined public reach across all three events: approximately 2,150 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 36; 36th 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: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.