2025-11-12T12:13:35Z 2025-06-30 990EZ 2024-07-01 331921819 PRESS START GAMING INC PRES 9099089482 3630 DELTA AVE LONG BEACH CA 908102217 Daniel Montague Johnson Founder / Executive Director 9099089482 2025-11-12 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X madmixedmedia.com X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Press Start is a nonprofit creative education organization dedicated to empowering youth and emerging creators through hands-on training in game design, animation, virtual production, and digital storytelling. Our programs provide access to industry-standard tools, mentorship from working professionals, and pathways into higher education and creative technology careers. By blending art, technology, and entrepreneurship, we help studentsparticularly those from underrepresented communitiesdevelop the skills, confidence, and portfolios needed to succeed in the modern creative economy. Through workshops, school partnerships, and community labs, Press Start transforms learning into a launchpad for lifelong opportunity. During 2024, Press Start completed its organizational setup phase and began building curriculum and community partnerships to launch youth programs in creative technology. The organization secured equipment donations, developed game design and animation lesson plans, and established partnerships with local schools to host future labs. These activities laid the foundation for Press Starts hands-on training programs in 2025. 0 0 0 Daniel MoJo Johnson Founder / Executive Director 50.00 0 0 0 Erin Becks Co/Founder 40.00 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false 0 false 0 0 false CA Daniel Mojo Johnson 3630 Delta Ave na Long Beach CA 90810 4153164594 false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 true X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0.00000 0.00000 Part II, Line 13 Press Start Inc. is a newly formed 501(c)(3) organization filing its first Form 990-EZ for the 2024 tax year. The organization did not receive any unusual grants or restricted funds and did not engage in any transactions requiring special disclosure. This return is filed under the first five years provision of Section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) for public charity status. Part I, Line 21 During the 2024 tax year, Press Start Inc. did not receive direct contributions or generate program revenue through its nonprofit account. The organizations founder, Daniel Johnson, personally and through his related business, MAD Mixed Media LLC, purchased educational software, training courses, and creative-technology assets to prepare for future Press Start programs. No funds were transferred to or from Press Starts bank account during this year. All such expenditures were treated as in-kind support to advance the organizations exempt purpose of empowering youth through creative-technology education. Part II, Line 26 Line 27: All creative-technology purchases during the 2024 tax year were made personally by the founder via MAD Mixed Media LLC to support future Press Start programs. No funds were held in or disbursed from Press Starts nonprofit accounts during the reporting period.