Advancing Science Technology and Art Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842871388
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,720
- Expenses
- $77,525
- Assets
- $235,416
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mabel A Szeto (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Jack Silberman (Director)
- Colin A Szeto (Secretary)
- Mabel A Szeto (CEO)
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
Our mission is to promote science technology engineering arts and mathematics STEAM education around the globe with focus on under-served communities. Our organization focuses on developing youth leaders in promoting STEAM education. Youth leaders have proved to be better ambassadors to inspire the next generation of youth and their success in turn inspires industry professionals to further our cause in educating the next generation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote STEAM education to students through robotics competitions such as FIRST Lego League FIRST Tech Challenge FIRST Global Challenge RoboBoat RoboSub and RobotX. Teach robotics to students locally in San Diego and globally in Benin Ecuador Eswatini Haiti Paraguay and Togo in partnership with FIRST Global. Reached approximately 1,700 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.04; rating input score 89; 89th 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: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.