Game Genius Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861846898
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kensington, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2406300198
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,941
- Expenses
- $96,138
- Assets
- $9,073
- 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
- Peter Williamson (President and Treasurer)
- Sherrod McKenzie (Vice President and Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Peter Williamson (President and Treasurer)
- Sherrod McKenzie (Vice President and Secretary)
- Nehal Gandhi (Board Member)
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
Provide play-based services and experiences to support leaders, organizations, and socially beneficial initiatives in the Greater Washington DC region
What it reported doing in 2025
Direct consultative services to local changemakers and nonprofits on how to use play and games to improve their impact programs and working relationships
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.6%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 3
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.6% of revenue deployed · 2.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.