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Casual Simulation

990EZ • Fiscal year 2023 • EIN 85-3670436

Jul 01, 2022 to Jun 30, 2023 • Filed on Feb 07, 2024

1300 Michigan Street NE Suite 100Grand Rapids, MI 49503

(616) 970-5226

Siviq Scores

Precomputed percentiles for this filing year versus similar nonprofits in the same peer cohort.

Liabilities / Assets

60th percentile

0.00x

Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.

2023 filings • NTEE B99 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2023

Liabilities / Revenue

61st percentile

0.00x

Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.

2023 filings • NTEE B99 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2023

Net Margin

71st percentile

26%

Higher net margin than 71% of similar nonprofits.

2023 filings • NTEE B99 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2023

Top Officer Pay

78th percentile

$0

Higher top officer pay than 78% of similar nonprofits.

Top officer pay equals 0.0% of source-year revenue.

2023 filings • NTEE B99 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2023

Asset Growth

Score unavailable

No value available

No earlier valid filing was available within the previous three public years.

Source year 2023

Revenue Growth

Score unavailable

No value available

No earlier valid filing was available within the previous three public years.

Source year 2023

Assets

$37,240

No earlier filing loaded for comparison.

Net Assets

$37,240

No earlier filing loaded for comparison.

Liabilities

$0

No earlier filing loaded for comparison.

Revenue

$126,496

No earlier filing loaded for comparison.

Expenses

$93,082

No earlier filing loaded for comparison.

Net Income

$33,414

No earlier filing loaded for comparison.

Historical Trend

Balance Sheet Trend

The highlighted filing sits inside the broader history for assets, liabilities, and net assets.

$600K$400K$200K$0Assets 2023: $37,240Liabilities 2023: $0Net Assets 2023: $37,2402023Assets 2024: $493,715Liabilities 2024: $4,988Net Assets 2024: $488,7272024

Highlighted filing

2023

Assets$37,240
Liabilities$0
Net Assets$37,240

Operations Trend

Revenue, expenses, and net income across loaded years, with this filing highlighted.

$600K$400K$200K$0Revenue 2023: $126,496Expenses 2023: $93,082Net Income 2023: $33,4142023Revenue 2024: $541,386Expenses 2024: $89,899Net Income 2024: $451,4872024

Highlighted filing

2023

Revenue$126,496
Expenses$93,082
Net Income$33,414
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Filing Snapshot
Filing Period
Jul 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2023
Signed
Feb 7, 2024
Return Version
2022v5.0
Gross Receipts
$126,496
Mission and Program Overview

Mission

The specific purpose for which Casual Simulation Inc. is organized and operated exclusively is for educational purposes with the mission of "Advancing Practice." Casual Simulation's educational purposes are the advancement of education via improving practice skills and providing better practice resources. If individuals improve how they practice they will improve how they acquire and enhance their capabilities.

Program Services

DescriptionGrantsExpenses
Develop Free, Publicly Available Opensource Tools: Casual Simulation Inc.maintains, contributes resources towards, and actively develops opensource technology that is both publicly accessible and useful in improving people's capabilities in accordance with Casual Simulation's mission of advancing practice for all. This includes but is not limited to CasualOS, an opensource, MIT license web-based simulation and practice tool publicly available online at https://github.com/casual-simulation/casualos#readme. CasualOS is a full Integrated Development Environment ("IDE") able to be used to create web-based applications. By maintaining CasualOS as an entirely free, opensource, public good students, educators, and the public can use CasualOS to create, own, and leverage automation in education, productivity, and play. Today CasualOS is used in schools and the Kent Career Technical Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan to practice computational literacy skills. Publicly maintained resources include documentation, learning modules, and tools designed to promote computational literacy understanding and practice free of charge. CasualOSallows students to build or modify web-based experiences that work across allweb-enabled hardware and services including low-cost, older devices (such as years-old Android smartphones, Amazon Fire tablets, Chromebooks, and more). Suchexperiences are able to be developed or used in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality(AR), and across multiple devices or services simultaneously in realtime.$0$0
Educational Resources: Providing all with educational resources is a significant wayCasual Simulation can help people practice in pursuit of bettering themselves andothers. Thus Casual Simulation Inc. develops educational resources to enable all toimprove their capabilities by harnessing technology. A significant part of this effort for Casual Simulation is to train the trainers of the most concentrated amount of practice time available to all people - public education. By helping teachers practice we enable them to help children to practice.$0$0
Compensation and Service Providers

Employees

NameTitleFull / Part TimeBaseOtherTotal
Marc PetzDirector-$0--
Christopher AllersTreasurer-$0--
Ashley FreeneySecretary-$0--
Mike PostumusPresident-$0--
Filing and Contact Details

Filer

Filer Name
Casual Simulation Inc
EIN
85-3670436
Phone
6169705226
Address
1300 Michigan Street NE Suite 100, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Signing Officer

Name
Christopher Allers
Title
Treasurer
Phone
6169705226
Signed
2024-02-07
Discuss with paid preparer
Yes

Preparer

Firm
Pennell CPA PLC
Address
5005 Cascade Road SE Suite A, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Preparer
Ronald J Kaley CPA
Phone
6162857050
Supplemental Narrative

Additional Explanations

Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 - Other Revenue

Description: Stripe Sales. Amount: 2,905. Description: Interest Income. Amount: 1. Total to Form 990-EZ, line 8: 2,906. Total to Form 990-EZ, line 14: 22,214.

Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 14

Description: Depreciation. Amount: 20,714. Description: Other Expenses. Amount: 1,500.

Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 - Other Expenses

Description: Software. Amount: 40,725. Description: Bank Fees. Amount: 325. Description: Insurance. Amount: 2,766. Description: Shipping & Postage. Amount: 1. Description: Merchant Processing Fees. Amount: 1,101. Description: OLX Payments & Fees. Amount: 25,945. Total to Form 990-EZ, line 16: 70,863.

Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 - Other Assets

Description: Other Depreciable Assets. Beg. of Year Amount: 0. End of Year Amount: 4,286.

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