N50 Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333601892
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4802133061
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $626,612
- Expenses
- $427,035
- Assets
- $243,371
- Liabilities
- $43,794
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Daniel Gutwein (CEO)
- Erin Bown-Anderson (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Daniel Gutwein (CEO): $116,300 total reported compensation
- Erin Bown-Anderson (Executive Director): $84,377 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The N50 Project combines the expertise of nearly 250 organizations to deliver the right digital tools and strategiesfastto eliminate digital poverty. We design build equip install and train on turnkey digital labs in underserved schools and communities worldwide in just four weeks through needs assessments equipment procurement installation and hands-on training.
What it reported doing in 2025
Design procure deliver install and turn over fully equipped digital labs in underserved schools and communities globally. The organization works with local partners on needs assessments and delivers holistic solutions that include technology connectivity and skills training. All efforts are streamlined into six essential initiatives: Skills for All Displaced People For WomenKind AI for All HealthTech for All and EdTech for All.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.5%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $41.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.9%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.5% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $404K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.