National Cyber League
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300715800
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Chevy Chase, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3018145613
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,238
- Expenses
- $62,069
- Assets
- $106,328
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- COSTIS TOREGAS (TREASURER)
- JASMINE JACKSON (SECRETARY)
- DAVID ZEICHICK (DIRECTOR)
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
Provide an ongoing virtual training ground for faculty and students to develop and validate cybersecurity skills using content aligned with individual and team games - which is scalable across many industry certifications, curricula, job roles, and verticals.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, the national cyber league (ncl) provided a training platform and a competition online environment to improve the skills and capabilities of students from high schools, community colleges, and universities around the country. As a result, the 2025 ncl spring and fall seasons continued previous seasons' overall success in scaling the experience. Ncl was able to deliver a competition event experience to a greater number of participants, exceeding 20,000 players for both seasons, with much improved quality relative to the previous games. An aggressive social media communication campaign engaged faculty members and introduced the use of ncl offerings in the classroom via web broadcasts led by the ncl commissioner. The ncl has changed its business model in partnership with cyber skyline since 2021, and cyber skyline now undertakes most of the administrative effort, operations of the software platform, collection of revenues, and other time-consuming tasks. In return, there is an agreement regarding sharing of gross revenues on a fixed percentage, allowing ncl to focus on its mission to support education efforts in cybersecurity. This agreement was fully active for ty25, reducing ncl's operational costs significantly and providing net proceeds that fueled important research and networking activities aligned with ncl's nonprofit mission. In addition, the ncl board developed a 3-year strategic plan with assistance from an external facilitator, and has developed the fy26 budget aligned with the plan priorities. Board members volunteered to drive each of the 4 priority initiatives: community building and sustained engagement, industry engagement and career pipeline development, financial barriers removal & accessibility and high school outreach & k-12 partnerships
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.6%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 36.4%; rating input score 36
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 62; 62nd 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: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.6% of revenue deployed · 36.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.