Philadelphia Area Tech Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824890678
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Elkins Park, PA, USA
Phone
2677026563
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Computer Science

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$448
Assets
$5,523
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Christopher Urban (President)

People named in this filing

  • Christopher Urban (President)
  • Anson Han (Secretary)

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

The Philadelphia Area Tech Association (PATA) runs a variety of initiatives aimed at supporting the open source content management software community and its growth. The two main focuses of the Association are CMSPhilly.org - the online home of the open source community, and CMSPhilly (formerly Drupaldelphia), an annual regional conference. We run monthly meetings open to the community, to connect job seekers and employers, and to bring together marketers, agencies, and leaders to create and distribute open source materials that help grow open source content management software adoption. The PATA provides ongoing financial support for students through ad hoc scholarship awards.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our preferred venue, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, unexpectedly closed in 2024 and declared bankruptcy. As a result, we did not hold our annual conference that typically includes dozens of talks, workshops, and support clinics.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.33; rating input score 93; 93rd 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: -56.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -54% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.