TECH-Nique Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832267785
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 5028768759
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $357,236
- Expenses
- $361,819
- Assets
- $13,248
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary E Wiederwohl (Vice President)
- Carmen Moreno-Rivera (President)
People named in this filing
- Alisia McClain (Secretary)
- Mary E Wiederwohl (Vice President)
- Aysia Gilbert (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tech-niques mission is to provide community-centric opportunities in technology that elevate the voices and experiences of underrepresented groups. We equip our participants not just to be consumers of technology, but also game-changing creators and leaders in the field.
What it reported doing in 2024
TECC Boss: Technology Entrepreneurship to Create change TECC Boss is a 6-week paid summer internship for Louisville youth aged 16-21. Held Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, the program empowers interns to explore tech pathways and foster their entrepreneirial spirit, irrespective of prior tech experience. Sponsored by SummerWorks, our goal is to leverage technology to drive social change. In the past three years, weve engaged 130 young innovators, addressing community isses ranging from LGBTQ advocacy to financial Literacy. The 2023 Health and Wellness Edition focued on health equity, equipping participants to craft tech solutions for pressing community health challenges. At its core, TECC Boss champions a healthier more equitable Louisville.
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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.8%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 56.1%; rating input score 56
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.8% of revenue deployed · 56.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $203K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.