Tex Users Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222868942
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5032239994
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,937
- Expenses
- $121,844
- Assets
- $201,009
- Liabilities
- $98,285
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Arthur Rosendahl (President)
- Erik Nijenhuis (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Arthur Rosendahl (President)
- Erik Nijenhuis (Vice President)
- Jim Hefferon (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide an organization for those who have an interest in systems for typesetting technical text and font design; to exchange information of same and associated use of computers and computer peripheral equipment; to establish standards and provide channels to facilitate the exchange of macro packages, etc., through publications and otherwise; and to develop, implement and sponsor educational programs, seminars, and conferences in connection with the foregoing and for any lawful purpose or purposes permitted under the Rhode Island non-profit corporation act.
What it reported doing in 2025
Administer MacTeX fund (includes Apple developer fees for TeX-related development $107, and memberships $550). Administer LaTeX3 fund (memberships $675, workshop funding $1048). Administer TeX Development fund (TDF grants $4750), CTAN fund memberships ($550).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, 23% for grants, and 4% for member benefits.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.4%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 38.4%; rating input score 38
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.4% of revenue deployed · 38.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.