Tabletop Game Designers Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934701323
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Bridgewater, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2028415895
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,843
- Expenses
- $9,895
- Assets
- $82,602
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Geoff Engelstein (President)
- Sen-Foong Lim (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Geoff Engelstein (President)
- Sen-Foong Lim (Vice President)
- Elizabeth Hargrave (Treasurer)
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
The Tabletop Game Designers Association is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization that serves as the trade association for Tabletop Game Designers. Our mission is to promote the craft of tabletop game design through education and support; to advocate for the designers of tabletop games; and to build community among game designers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Maintained a website with extensive resources for members and non-members. Produced a series of 5 webinars available to all members on our website for streaming at anytime. The website also includes access to a member directory based on our membership management system, allowing our approximately 500 members to reach out to each other for publisher references, playtesting, and other networking.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.1%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 80.9%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.35; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.1% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- 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 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.