Snoco Makers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473499005
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Everett, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2064120829
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Computer Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,540
- Expenses
- $103,774
- Assets
- $17,024
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Terence Tam (President)
People named in this filing
- Terence Tam (President)
- Deborah Williams (Treasurer)
- Dave Hearn (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
SnoCo Makerspace (Snohomish County Makers) is a group of hobbyists, entrepreneurs, artists, mad-scientists, hackers, geeks, and other technologically-savvy persons interested in creating. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and have a local Makerspace collaborative workshop equipped with modern tools and materials for projects of all shapes, sizes and scope. Our purpose is the advancement of knowledge in Computer Science, Crafting and Maker activities for any interested parties in the Snohomish County area regardless of their ability to contribute financially. We provide workshop space and tools for use to those who could not otherwise afford them
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided tool and equipment access to community members
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 186% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $88K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.