Tamuhack
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812256111
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Prosper, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8474314250
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,785
- Expenses
- $65,280
- Assets
- $93,899
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- Monish Kanneboina (Officer)
- Eric Li (Officer)
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
TAMUhack is a hackathon organization dedicated to hosting hackathons for college students. We organize 2 hackathons annually, our flagship hackathon, TAMUHack, and our beginner-friendly hackathon, HowdyHack. Each year, we have over 800 students collaborate to develop both software and hardware engineering projects. Furthermore, TAMUhack hosts different workshop weeks throughout the year in the purpose of educating students on technologies and careers. All of our events are sustained by donations and sponsorships from companies and organizations. The funds for orchestrating the hackathons and workshops are broken down into the following, all of which are provided to the participants at no cost: venue, food catering, snacks and drinks, swag and prizes, and miscellaneous items that support the event. Overall, TAMUhack demonstrates its primary exempt purpose by fostering educational and career development opportunities for students in technology.
What it reported doing in 2025
TAMUhack is an organization dedicated to fostering technological innovation, hands-on education, and professional development among college students. Our primary initiative is hosting TAMUhack, one of the largest collegiate hackathons in Texas, which annually gathers over 800 students from across the nation to collaborate on software and hardware projects over a 24-hour period. The purpose of TAMUhack is to provide an accessible, inclusive, and educational environment where students of all backgrounds and skill levels can apply their classroom knowledge to real-world problems through experiential learning. We fulfill this educational mission in a variety of ways. We facilitate project-based learning. At our events, participants form teams to brainstorm, design, and develop technological solutions to problems ranging from personal productivity tools to social impact initiatives. Participants gain experience in software engineering, design thinking, project management, and technical collaboration. We connect students with industry mentors and professionals. We invite sponsors and community partners from leading tech companies and startups to provide mentorship, give tech talks, and offer resources such as APIs, cloud credits, and hardware kits. These interactions give participants exposure to current industry practices and potential career opportunities. We host career and technical development opportunities. In addition to hackathon weekends, we organize career prep initiatives such as resume reviews, mock interviews, portfolio building sessions, and panels on navigating the tech industry. These resources are free to students and are made possible through sponsorship support. We encourage inclusivity and equity in technology. We provide all students with free admission, food, and resources during our events to ensure that financial need is never a barrier to participation. We actively promote diversity in tech by welcoming participants of all skill levels, majors, and identities. We also offer travel reimbursements and hardware access to underserved students. Our organization is driven by volunteers, people who dedicate their time to planning, organizing, and executing the events. All funding is obtained through corporate sponsorships, in-kind donations, and partnerships. These funds go toward event logistics (venue rentals, food, supplies, travel grants, and prizes), workshop hosting, and educational materials. By creating an open platform for experiential learning, technical education, and career development, TAMUhack directly furthers the educational and charitable goals outlined in our tax-exempt mission. We equip students with critical STEM skills, real-world problem-solving experience, and connections that enhance their future career opportunities in technology and engineering.
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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 57; 57th 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: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 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.
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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.