Hackpgh
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822021084
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4125082360
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,457
- Expenses
- $116,591
- Assets
- $343,218
- Liabilities
- $5,415
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rebecca Zajdel (President)
People named in this filing
- Brian Esch (Treasurer)
- Rebecca Zajdel (President)
- Valerie Walch (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
HackPGH is the Pittsburgh's oldest makerspace. We provide tools, training, and a safe location for members of the local community to learn hands-on skills and pursue creative projects. HackPGH is dedicated to building a better future by welcoming people from all walks of life to the Maker Movement through collaboration, education, and outreach. HackPGH has many open classes and clubs centered around skills such as crafting/sewing, wood & metalworking, welding, laser-crafting, CNC routing, 3D printing, electronics, computers, graphics, an more. HackPGH is run entirely by volunteers. We are proud of our many outreach programs, past and present. From our free vaccination clinics to building equipment for food pantries to providing scholarships for those in financial need or residing in homeless/domestic abuse shelters, Hack tries to never turn away those who wish to join solely based on inability to pay! Basic training for members on nearly all our equipment is free.
What it reported doing in 2025
Classes: Paid classes to provide intensive training or "make and take" activities to give students of all ages knowledge of a subject. Most of our classes are for beginners, but we have increased our intermediate and intensive workshops, too!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.94; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.