TXRX Labs
Legal name: Transmit Receive Labs Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465563614
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- Phone
- 281-868-8979
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,912,539
- Expenses
- $4,365,543
- Assets
- $1,814,602
- Liabilities
- $981,428
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Roland Von Kurnatowski (Director): $97,167 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We enjoy a challenge. We seek out opportunities to learn, create and innovate, and we encourage this in others. Our diverse network of creators, artist, and inventors coupled with tools and knowledge, enable dreams to become reality. We teach people of all ages and backgrounds the skills they need to build a future full of novelty and inspiration.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education Program: In 2025, TXRX Labs continued expanding its education initiatives with Houston-area students and teachers, maintaining a strong partnership with the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and welcoming non-HISD schools. TXRX continued its collaboration with the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (HCJPD), delivering both on-site and facility-based trainIng at the Youth Village, with instruction in carpentry, CAD, 3D printing, CNC laser cutting, welding, and electronics. In 2025 TXRX Labs expanded the scope of work of the CACT.US Design Center, funded by the Cactus Jack Foundation. The Design Center established the Sneaker Lab design training program in 2025. It continued offer a summer internship, hosted remote Sneaker Lab activations for middle school, high school, and college students. Through these initiatives, TXRX expanded access to human-centered design education and connected students to cultural and industry platforms. Job Training Program: In 2025, TXRX Labs advanced its workforce development pipeline through the Electronic Engineering Technologist (EET) Extended Training, a short-term, a certification-aligned, intensive hands-on 4-week training program that prepared students to produce professional electronic components upon completion. TXRX Labs also hosted electronics industry events and job fairs at its facility, and developed a robust work-based learning internship program for electronics students at TXRX Labs. These efforts strengthened TXRX's ability to connect skilled trainees directly with regional employers and to support the growth of Houston's electronics manufacturing ecosystem. Across both youth and adult programs, TXRX Labs strengthened its role as a hub for hands-on, technology-driven workforce preparation, ensuring that underserved communities have access to high-wage, high-demand career pathways.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $315.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $97K · 6 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $215K reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.