Talent Maker City
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814733512
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Talent, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5418974477
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Service Organizations and Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,585,754
- Expenses
- $1,110,212
- Assets
- $4,643,971
- Liabilities
- $1,507,866
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLISON FRENCH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DARBY AYERS-FLOOD (BOARD PRESIDENT/CHAIR)
Highest reported compensation
- ALLISON FRENCH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $75,408 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Talent Maker City is a nonprofit makerspace that builds a more connected, prosperous, and resilient community through hands-on creativity and innovative, STEAM-based learning. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Math).
What it reported doing in 2024
Education Programming: In our educational programs, 1537 students participated in laser engraving, ceramics, robotics, sewing, screenprinting, video production, coding, carpentry courses, and more! These in-school and summer programs help foster childrens creativity and a sense of self-esteem. We worked with youth impacted by the Almeda fire by building beds for families who lost their homes in the disaster. While our programs serve all youth from elementary to high school, we especially enjoyed our continued skill-building work with incarcerated youth. Through strong community partnerships, we added successful new programming for students experiencing disabilities and students facing homelessness, a significant step towards our mission to build a more prosperous, more connected, and more resilient community through hands-on STEAM-based learning. In addition, we provided professional development opportunities for 101 educators, and presented at several statewide events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.9%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.18; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 51% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.9% of revenue deployed · 70% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $777K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.