2026-08-21T14:24:31-07:00 2025-06-30 990EZ 2024-07-01 814176621 DC Peers DCPE 2025961985 4709 Wisconsin Avenue NW Washington DC 20016 Catherine Robertson Executive Director 2025805622 2026-06-03 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X X https://www.dcpeers.org X X 154063 X 110657 43252 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 85 -76 145 153978 0 0 83781 5990 41259 250 17748 149028 4950 52601 0 57551 X 51851 12474 0 0 750 45077 52601 57551 0 0 52601 57551 X DC Peers' mission is to create social growth, connection, and learning opportunities that respect and affirm neurodiversity. In our free and low-cost programs for teens and adults, we bring neurodiverse groups together to socialize and to learn from each other about our differences, ourselves, and how autism and other neurological differences affect our interactions with each other. Our new drop-in community space is also offering a unique, neurodiversity-affirming "third place" to autistic and neurodivergent teens and adults. Teen Programs: Despite losing 3 months to our move and the delay in building out our new space, DC Peers ran free and low-cost social, gaming, and arts programs for neurodivergent teens, including Middle and High School Social Meetups, online Discord and Minecraft gaming groups, One-Day Movie Making, RPG One-Shots, and the teen Art & Neurodiversity program in partnership with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Approximately 115 teens participated across 7 programs between September 2024 and June 2025. (See Schedule O, Statement 4.) 0 39000 Adult Programs - Despite losing 3 months to our move and the delay in building out our new space, DC Peers was able to offer social, peer-support, and gaming programs for neurodivergent adults, including online support groups, Monday Game Nights, around-town social get-togethers, and two in-person meetups co-hosted with Best Buddies at American University. Approximately 175 adults participated across 12 programs. (See Schedule O, Statement 5.) 0 21000 Community Space and Membership: DC Peers leased and built out a new community space in Washington, DC, opening in February 2025. The space hosts in-person programs, drop-in hours for members, and a Community Committee made up of folks DC Peers serves. A new membership program (free and paid tiers) gives folks access to drop in to make things, play, connect, or rest. Approximately 50 people became members and 50 used the space during the fiscal year. (See Schedule O, Statement 6.) 0 48000 108000 Nico Ekanem Trustee 1 0 0 0 Monica Martinez Secretary 1 0 0 0 Catherine Robertson President 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DC Catherine Robertson 4709 Wisconsin Avenue NW Washington DC 20016 2025961985 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 16799 138158 25330 134251 133908 448446 2361 154 2515 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16799 138158 25330 136612 134062 450961 0 72000 72000 109779 7334 0 0 117113 0 109779 7334 0 72000 189113 261848 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 642 0 642 16799 138158 25330 137254 134062 451603 0.57982 0.62 0 0 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 Section B Line 12 shows an income of $642, which is from goods sold from our online store. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Header, Line B I made a $40 mistake on Schedule O and needed to update the expenses listed. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Discount Income from Amazon - $70 Coaching fee - C Robertson - $75 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Marketing & Outreach, $1157 | Prof memberships $80 | Supplies, Equipment, Software $10,565 | Software & Online Services $2,545 | Capacity Building $1,568 | Fees & Dues, 1,833 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 We moved into a new space with a triple net lease, so were required to share in the cost of the buildout. We spent $43,585 on Leasehold Improvements and $1350 on durable games & equipment Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 1,492 - furniture and equipment 43,585 - Leasehold Improvements Form 990-EZ, Part III, Line (28-31) Community Space and Membership Fiscal year 2024-25 was a major transition year for DC Peers. The organization signed a lease for a new community space in spring 2024 and originally hoped to occupy it in summer 2024, but permit delays and buildout cost overruns pushed the move-in to January 2025, with programs resuming in the space in February 2025. The community space is the home base for DC Peers' in-person programs and is itself a program service: it operates as a drop-in, low-barrier community space where neurodivergent folks come to socialize, create, play, and rest. Drop-in hours and member access fulfill DC Peers' exempt purpose of creating social growth, connection, and learning opportunities that respect and affirm neurodiversity. Key components launched in this fiscal year: * Drop-in hours and member access to the physical space. * A Community Committee made up of folks DC Peers serves, helping shape how the space is used. * A new membership program with a free tier and a paid space-membership tier that permits folks to drop in to make things, play, connect, or rest. Approximately [X] folks became members and approximately [Y] used the space during the partial-year operating period (February through June 2025). Cost in this fiscal year was elevated relative to future years because of buildout-related expenses and the staff investment in opening the space. I'm the neurodivergent and unpaid founder, executive director, board president, bookkeeper, accountant, and facilitator of our core groups, I do everything from buying the snacks to writing grants to conceiving, planning, and running community events. I also have a severely disabled adult son. This transition year extremely overshot my capacities. I thought I had filed a Form 8868 for an extension, but I have had no one catching my mistakes, as I try to manage all 60-something operations tasks involved in running a nonprofit. I have now taken corrective action and have hired a bookkeeper, a program coordinator, and a consultant so that I can handle these obligations and and also raise money.