Juneau Makerspace

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473370801
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Juneau, AK, USA
Phone
9072093103
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Continuing Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$63,500
Expenses
$52,915
Assets
$99,928
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Arielle Parker (Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Arielle Parker (Board President)
  • Samuel Bornstein (Board Treasurer)
  • Clayton Dale (Board 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

Our mission statement is Juneau Makerspace provides space, tools, and equipment to the community of Juneau to promote creativity, education, exploration, and innovation.

What it reported doing in 2025

Juneau Makerspace provides space, tools, and equipment to the community of Juneau to promote creativity, education, exploration, and innovation. Our three main functions are providing tools and equipment to our members, serving as a rental facility for community events, and bringing the spirit of making into the community through booth events. Over the past year, we have upgraded our facility and acquired new tools for our members. We have a woodshop, ceramics studio, craft room, electronics lab, and other areas for making. We've upgraded our woodshop ventilation and have had other equipment donated, such as metalworking tools. We renovated our craft room to allow for better access and more projects. By providing this equipment, we serve a wide variety of artists, hobbyists, and even small businesses. Next, as a rental facility, we have hosted a variety of classes, workshops, parties, meetings, and other community events. Other local groups, such as scout troops, neighborhood associations, and even an avalanche safety class, have been able to meet and function thanks to our volunteers who maintain the Makerspace. Finally, we have run booths at other local events to promote making, such as at the local Renaissance Faire. We have had hundreds of members over the years, usually between 50 to 60 at any given time, we host multiple events weekly that see hundreds of people from our community come through our door, and we do outreach at our booths at local events attended by hundreds of people.

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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 64; 64th 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: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.