Noisebridge
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263507741
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9162337721
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,433
- Expenses
- $144,524
- Assets
- $222,401
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elan Hourticolon-Retzler (President)
People named in this filing
- Loren McIntyre (Treasurer)
- Mark Wilson (Secretary)
- Elan Hourticolon-Retzler (President)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Noisebridge is an infrastructure provider for technical-creative projects, collaboratively run by its members. Noisebridge was incorporated as a non-profit educational corporation for public benefit in California in 2008. Noisebridge operates primarily in a 5,600 square-foot space located in the heart of San Francisco.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our 5,600 square-foot space contains an electronics lab, machine shop, sewing/crafting supplies, two classrooms, conference area, library, darkroom, and kitchen. Everyone is welcome to use our many resources. Members can find others to create with and/or to Find help with their projects. We also encourage members to Help others with their projects. Noisebridge encourages all members to Come to the facility to Learn, teach, share and create!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -71.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.