Technocopia Co
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463296297
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Worcester, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7744202244
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $260,202
- Expenses
- $347,362
- Assets
- $298,107
- Liabilities
- $123,743
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC SUTMAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC SUTMAN (PRESIDENT): $56,992 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to build and maintain spaces suitable for technical and social collaboration; collaboration on all forms of technology, culture, culture and craft, collaboration and development of new and/or existing technology, culture and craft, that helps provide communities, families, and/or individuals the tools and expertise necessary to sustainably provide for the humanitarian need of a community, family, and/or individual; freely share its research and discoveries; using what is learned to teach others, recruit and develop talented members dedicated to these purposes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Technocopia expanded its membership, classes, and programs. We improved our organizational infrastructure in order to improve operational efficiency. Technocopia has maintained many partnerships in our community with other area non-profits and the city of worcester. We have introduced new free public-facing programs and participated as demonstrators at local festivals and other free community events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -33.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $274K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $57K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.