Technology Playground
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522335935
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023591269
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Youth Development - Business
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $100
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Amina Brown PhD (Board Chair)
- Hazel Hawkins (Treasurer)
- Reginald Grant (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Technology Playground is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering youth in Washington, DC, by equipping them with the tools, knowledge, and experiences necessary to break the cycle of poverty. The organization addresses economic disparities by providing innovative, hands-on programs in entrepreneurship, STEM education, workforce development, and digital literacy. Through a combination of training, mentorship, and real-world application, Technology Playground creates pathways for underrepresented youth to gain valuable skills, cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, and access opportunities for long-term economic mobility and personal success.
What it reported doing in 2024
Technology Playground offers a series of entrepreneurship workshops, boot camps, and business pitch competitions designed to teach youth the fundamentals of business ownership, financial literacy, problem-solving, and innovation. Participants learn how to identify opportunities, build business models, and present their ideas to real-world audiences. These programs aim to nurture entrepreneurial thinking and economic independence in underserved communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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: 73
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -28% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $500 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 9 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.