Alabama Stem Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260240624
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Auburn, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2519426695
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $173,803
- Expenses
- $83,582
- Assets
- $95,189
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- DR CHARLES NASH (BOARD MEMBER)
- TINA WATTS (BOARD MEMBER)
- DR ADRIENNE STARKS (BOARD MEMBER)
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
To serve as a voice for stem advancement while creating opportunities through grants, scholarships, internships, and philanthropic efforts.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Alabama stem foundation advocates for equitable, high-quality stem education across the state by funding and promoting programs that prepare students for current and future workforce. Through strategic partnerships with education, business, industry, and government, we drive systemic change to increase stem literacy, retain talent, and foster workforce development
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.3%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
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: 51.9%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.3% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.