Spark Camp Inc C/o Brian Woolf
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452914993
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Pasadena, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2673424300
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,125
- Expenses
- $8,653
- Assets
- $4,505
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY WEBB (PRESIDENT)
- AMANDA R MICHEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MATTHEW R THOMPSON (BOARD MEMBER)
- AMY WEBB (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREW C PERGAM (TREASURER/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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To hold conferences and disseminate knowledge about technology and journalism to help news organizations continue to publish and to better serve society as the media landscape changes. To hold conferences and events about how to improve the future of technology, media, and society. The organization is a next-generation convener. It engineers productive collisions of talented people to tackle provocative questions, develop meaningful relationships and lead ideas into action. It facilitates important conversations that propel society forward. It challenges convention and values intimacy. And it forms an enduring and diverse network of innovative thinkers set on bringing about positive change in their worlds.
What it reported doing in 2020
The organization creates events, facilitates conversations and helps partnerships form between attendees. It publishes best practices after events in order to disseminate the learning experiences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -41.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -24.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2020
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.