Gatsby Showcase Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333674088
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Laurel, MD, USA
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $148,170
- Expenses
- $138,391
- Assets
- $9,779
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bertrand Fote (President)
People named in this filing
- Bertrand Fote (President)
- Shirley Ayuk-Takem (Board Member)
- Emmanuel Fombu (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
The Gatsby Showcase Foundations primary exempt purpose is to empower historically marginalized and underserved individuals and communities to achieve economic independence and improved quality of life through education entrepreneurship financial literacy workforce development and access to essential resources. The Foundation advances its mission by providing small business mentorship microgrants scholarships capacity-building support community education and humanitarian initiatives including hygiene access and community outreach programs. These activities are designed to reduce economic inequities promote self-sufficiency and expand opportunities for individuals and small businesses locally and globally.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Gatsby Showcase Foundation provided microgrants sponsorship support and direct program assistance to individual entrepreneurs with a particular emphasis on women-owned and women-led small businesses from historically marginalized and underserved communities. The program was designed to reduce financial barriers and support early-stage and growing businesses in achieving sustainability and long-term economic stability. Program support was used to assist participants with essential business needs including startup and operating expenses professional services workforce development and access to resources critical for business growth. In addition to financial assistance the Foundation offered mentorship guidance and capacity-building support to strengthen business operations and promote economic independence. This program advances the Foundations charitable mission by empowering women entrepreneurs and small business owners fostering economic opportunity and supporting community-based economic development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 4
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: 6.6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 4% of revenue deployed · 4.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- 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 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.