Grassroots Developer Education Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813694200
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Braintree, MA, USA
Phone
7812488088
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Computer Science

Reported finances

Expenses
$48,688
Assets
$167,073
Liabilities
$332,438

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Stephen Patterson (President)

People named in this filing

  • Stephen Patterson (President)
  • Jennifer Silva (Director)
  • Giorgio Natili (Director)

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 sponsored education in new tech

What it reported doing in 2025

Providing spensored education in new software technology field to software developers and professionals to increase skills

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 23
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 60.6%; rating input score 61

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.43; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.99; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -23.8% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 46.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.