Spark App League
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472566789
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Gilbert, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4805036765
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $348
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $10,833
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICK BANGER (President)
- JENNIFER Harrison (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PATRICK BANGER (President)
- JENNIFER Harrison (VICE 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
The mission of the organization is to engage junior high and high school students from across Arizona in coding so that they can build games and applications and consider computer-science related majors and careers and learn about civic engagement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Spark app league is one annual event at Arizona state university's polytechnic campus for approximately 150 students for two days where they compete to create games and mobile applications. Unfortunately, the event has not held since the the covid-19 pandemic began.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -41.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- 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: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.