Wayne County Children's S.T.E.A.M. Playlab
Legal name: Wayne County Childrens STEAM Playlab STEAM Playlab Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843521007
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Dalton, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3303176923
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,296
- Expenses
- $102,466
- Assets
- $470,799
- Liabilities
- $62,837
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LORI COLON (President)
People named in this filing
- LORI COLON (President)
- RACHEL SPEELMAN (Director)
- DEBI SCHNIEDER-HOWLAND (Director)
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
The Playlab is a nonprofit children's science center committed to inspiring a love of learning by showcasing a community that is a agricultural, manufacturing, educational and technology hub in northeast Ohio. Our goal is to provide a high quality 'hands-on' experience for families, students and learners of all ages and abilities in our facility.
What it reported doing in 2024
Memberships - not yet open
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.3%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.59; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.