Roanenet

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834468155
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Harriman, TN, USA
Phone
5136592969
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Coalitions

Reported finances

Revenue
$217,097
Expenses
$213,207
Assets
$20,234
Liabilities
$9,280

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICHARD OWENS (President)

People named in this filing

  • RICHARD OWENS (President)
  • DEBRA SANER (Treasurer)
  • ALAN OWINGS (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We are a volunteer powered 501c-3 advancing digital equity and environmental sustainability across east Tennessee- improving health and well-being, growing financial security, and building resilient communities through life and tech skills, refubished devices, and affordable internet resources.

What it reported doing in 2025

Tech 4 all digital lab-individuals explore digital tools, gain hands on skills, and receive refurbished devices to support their goals. We refurbish old donated devices to ready them for distribution to needing residents of east tn. The lab reviews donated devices to find what upgrades are required to bring the devices up to current requirements. Components are purchased to retrofit the devices to acceptable units to be placed with a needing resident. Units have current software installed and tested.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 12
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.8%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.2% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $207K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.