Wait Until 8Th
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830628912
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5127310460
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,637
- Expenses
- $157,638
- Assets
- $90,319
- Liabilities
- $1,562
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BROOKE SHANNON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- BEN CANNATTI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN WHITLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BROOKE SHANNON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JESSICA BLACKLOCK (SECRETARY AND TREASURER)
- BEN CANNATTI (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
Wait until 8th exists to promote the public interest by 1) connecting, supporting and empowering parents who choose to delay giving their children a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade 2) educating parents, schools, healthcare providers, and the public about facts, research and information regarding the effects of smartphone usage on children and how to responsibly allow smartphone usage after 8th grade and beyond3) advocating for policies in elementary and middle schools that limit the use of personal smartphones and internet-connected devices
What it reported doing in 2025
Update database management platform to provide customized updates to parents on status of pledge numbers at their school to encourage them to spread the mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.9%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 49.6%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 69.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.9% of revenue deployed · 49.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.