Matts Maker Space Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824185501
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4125806733
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,256
- Expenses
- $128,938
- Assets
- $97,093
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Noelle Conover (Founder and President)
People named in this filing
- Emily Sanders (Director)
- Noelle Conover (Founder and President)
- Megan Conover (co-VP)
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
To donate maker spaces, including design, furniture, teacher training and supplies to schools, hospitals and other organizations, with a special emphasis on schools with a high free lunch population.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Conover Family Foundation sponsored maker spaces for Beaver Area School District and Wilkinsburg School District. These spaces provide students with hands-on STEAM learning opportunities inspired by creativity and collaboration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.7%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 60.1%; rating input score 60
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: -10.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 85.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.7% of revenue deployed · 60.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.