Politicraft Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472666456
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Phone
- 8337527238
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Citizen Participation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $890
- Expenses
- $553
- Assets
- $897
- Liabilities
- $18
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kevin R Lyle (Chair, Secretary and Director)
- Renee M Chatelain (Treasurer and Director)
- Mark L Kantrow (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
PolitiCraft, Inc. works to give voice to all people by promoting civility, engaging individuals, developing leadership and connecting communities using PolitiCraft, an immersive role-playing platform that transforms traditional civics learning by developing students' social-emotional aptitudes, literacy skills, systems thinking, and design learning skills. Alignment with the C3 Framework (College, Career, and Civic life) of the National Council for Social Studies ensures we meet school standards in the classroom. PolitiCraft guides players through varying levels of civic engagement, informing them of ways to participate and immediately achieve change in their communities. Players engage in conversations over questions facing their communities, exposing divergent perspectives, while fostering empathy and understanding. The game integrates key tools for engaging in civil discourse, like collaboration, active listening, negotiating, compromising, and building partnerships.
What it reported doing in 2025
Develop curriculum and supporting materials for use with the game in a variety of settings, such as the classroom, civic gatherings, organizational events or leadership sessions. Promote the existence of these materials and encourage teachers and leaders to submit their curriculum and material ideas for consideration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
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: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.9%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.9%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.62; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -35% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -32.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.9% of revenue deployed · 16.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.