Adroit
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882038792
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,287
- Expenses
- $93,168
- Assets
- $26,620
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joshua Peterson (President)
- Benjamin Nadolsky (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Joshua Peterson (President)
- Shun Ahmed (Director)
- Bryce Hanson (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ADROIT is organized and operated for charitable and educational purposes with the primary goal of expanding equitable access to STEM education robotics mentorship and leadership development for K12 students in Nashville and Middle Tennessee. ADROIT was formed to address inequalities in STEM education by providing underserved students with hands-on learning professional mentorship technical training and access to resources that help them explore STEM in a safe and supportive environment. Through FIRST Robotics FIRST LEGO League community outreach school partnerships and student-led mentoring ADROIT prepares students to become confident problem-solvers future industry leaders and active contributors to their communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
ADROIT expanded its STEM education pipeline by supporting younger students through FIRST LEGO League and elementary and middle school outreach. The organization helped establish and operate the Aventura Abejas a Spanish-led FIRST LEGO League Explore program at Aventura Community School. High school students from The Pioneers mentored approximately 30 elementary students through weekly hands-on activities involving teamwork design robotics engineering problem solving and Lego-based STEM challenges. ADROIT also participated in STEM nights and robotics demonstrations at schools including Aventura Community School Waverly-Belmont Elementary and Head Magnet helping younger students and families discover STEM opportunities outside the traditional classroom.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.