Mathjax Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881669159
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Morgantown, WV, USA
- Phone
- 5185884089
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,980
- Expenses
- $160,813
- Assets
- $50,410
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Davide P Cervone (President of BOD and Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Michael Gage (Member of Board of Directors)
- W Constinia Charbonnette (Member of Board of Directors)
- Davide P Cervone (President of BOD and Treasurer)
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
MathJax, Inc., provides software for displaying mathematical notation in web pages while making it accessible to users who have disabilities such a blindness or dyslexia. MathJax can be used to make educational, research materials, and publications on STEM subjects accessible to the visually impaired, improving the quality of life for them, and their ability to progress in their educations and careers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Development of the MathJax software library, including the speech rule engine that underlies its support for the visually impaired. The software is freely available to anyone. Usage information is difficult to acquire, as we do not have access to the logs for all installations of MathJax, but one of the major content delivery networks (CDNs) lists MathJax among its top 10 most popular libraries (of over 1 million being served), with over 3.1 billion requests per month. MathJax can also be incorporated into other projects, and one of the major mechanisms for doing so (npm.js) lists over 150 projects that do. The source code repository on GitHub shows 13,000 followers for the MathJax projects. We made the official v4.0.0 release in August, a major update for MathJax including significant improvements to its assistive support. A v4.1.0 release followed in December, addressing some issues and request from our users.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
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: 0.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $152K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.