2025-08-07T09:41:23-04:00 2024-12-31 851809756 Bookmate Corporation 8 The Green Ste A Dover DE 19901 990 2024-01-01 993980211 ECH Institute Inc % Sahil Suri ECHI 9736008795 964 High House Road STE 3068 Cary NC 275133574 SAHIL SURI President 9736008795 2025-06-12 false true ALEX SCHELLER P02407385 9704717816 2025-08-07 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X 422610 false X https://echinstitute.org/ X 2024 NC ECH Institute Inc. aims to educate and raise awareness about the Open source blockchain technology and its potential applications. The entity helps individuals and organizations understand the benefits of the technology and how they get involved. 3 3 0 7 0 0 422610 0 0 0 422610 0 0 0 0 0 4414 4414 418196 424610 6414 418196 ECH Institute Inc. aims to educate and raise awareness about the Open source blockchain technology and its potential applications. The entity helps individuals and organizations understand the benefits of the technology and how they get involved. false false 4414 422610 ECH Institute was formed in July 2024. In its initial bootstrapping phase, the organization focused on ecosystem engagement, community outreach, and strategic planning. Key accomplishments include epresenting ECH Institute at major Ecosystem events to raise visibility and awareness about the newly established entity, sharing the organizations vision for developing open educational content to support Ethereum protocol understanding and engagement, collecting community feedback to refine the initial roadmap and shape contributor onboarding strategies,supporting the Women in Ethereum Protocol Study Group by facilitating weekly Zoom meetings and providing mentorship for underrepresented contributors, producing and distributing educational videos introducing the mission of ECH Institute and encouraging community participation in open-source protocol work. These early efforts laid the foundation for ECH Institutes long-term goal of strengthening open source ecosystem. 4414 true true false false false false false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 true 0 false false false false false false false false X 3 3 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true false false false DE NC X Sahil Suri 9736008795 964 High House Road STE 3068 Cary NC 275133574 X George Hervey Director Of Board 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Pooja Ranjan President 7.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Matthew Garnett Vice President 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Sahil Suri Treasury & Secretary 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 false false false 422610 422610 0 422610 0 0 0 1573 1573 2645 2645 102 102 94 94 4414 4414 0 0 2000 422610 0 424610 6414 0 6414 X 418196 0 418196 0 424610 418196 0 X true X false false X 86663 86663 86663 86663 77811 8852 355946 355946 442609 0.02000 0.00000 X Other income Part II line 10 or Part III line 12 In 2024, ECH Institute Inc. received a one-time anonymous grant of $355,946.This grant qualifies as an under IRS Rev. Proc. 2003-13 and Publication 557, based on thefollowing: From disinterested parties Not part of a regular fundraising program Unsolicited and nonrecurring Made to provide launch and long-term educational and public benefit mission support.As this type of large, one-time contribution could distort the organizations public support calculation and is not represetative of typical ongoing support, it is excluded from both the numerator and denominator of the publicsupport percentage in Schedule A, Part II. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Investments -Cryptocurrency 422610 422610 Loan To Related Party 6414 6414 Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11 The governing body holds a monthly board meeting on the first Monday of each month to review important organizational matters, including payroll, tax filings, and any items requiring board approval. A complete copy of Form 990 is shared with all board members via email for their review prior to filing Conflict of interest policy compliance Part VI line 12c ECH Institute has a written conflict of interest policy. Board members and key personnel are required to discloseany actual or potential conflicts. Any such disclosures are reviewed promptly and, if needed, brought to the next board meeting for discussion and appropriate action to ensure continued compliance and transparency. Governing documents etc available to public Part VI line 19 All governing documents are made available to the public upon request General explanation attachment In the current tax year, ECH Institute Inc. received a one-time contribution that qualifies as an unusual grant underIRS Rev. Proc. 2003-13 and Publication 557.The donation came from a community-led multisignature (multisig) wallet, initially funded by various Ethereum ecosystem grantsmost notably from Moloch DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization not registered in the U.S. Upon formation of ECH Institute as a nonprofit, a portion of the multisig funds was donated through aprivacy-preserving method to continue work in coordination, education, and onboarding.Due to the pseudonymous and decentralized nature of the donor source, individual identities could not be verified.As such, and in accordance with IRS guidelines and legal counsel, the contribution has been reported as ano