Technology Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770456865
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6508875640
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,828,052
- Expenses
- $15,362,588
- Assets
- $19,006,287
- Liabilities
- $14,503,394
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA L MOORE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- MARGARET C DURKIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MID-ATLANTIC)
- JANN LORENZO C SOTO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SOUTH)
- TYLER B DIERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MIDWEST)
- CHRISTOPHER J GILREIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NORTHEAST)
Highest reported compensation
- LINDA L MOORE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,257,263 total reported compensation
- DAVID S EDMONSON (SVP, STATE POLICY & GOV RELATIONS): $473,673 total reported compensation
- APRIL MELLODY (SVP, COMMUNICATIONS): $451,715 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Technet is the national, bipartisan network of technology ceos and senior executives that promotes the growth of american innovation. Technet is committed to advancing public policies and private sector initiatives that make the u.s. The most innovative (cont. On sch. O) nation in the world. Technet champions policies that foster a climate for innovation, allowing technology companies to create, thrive, and compete. Technet members work together to identify key policy priorities and execute successful legislative strategies at the federal, state, and local levels.
What it reported doing in 2025
Technet has a sophisticated website and e-mail communications system for its members. Technet staff, in consultation with its members, is involved in shaping public perceptions about the high-tech industry and influencing public policy on american innovation issues. Technet develops policy positions in collaboration with its members, which are made public on its website and communicated to state and federal policymakers as part of a legislative effort.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.3M · 24 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.7M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.