Bloomfield Hills Robotics
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992266594
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2487899383
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $376,210
- Expenses
- $164,188
- Assets
- $212,952
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRYNN STEVENSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRYNN STEVENSON (PRESIDENT)
- RAVI BHATTIPROLU (DIRECTOR)
- MIHAELA COBB (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to inspire and support students in the stem fields by hosting and participating in community events, and providing opportunities for hands-on experience in designing, building, and programming robots. Through mentorship, teamwork, and access to resources, we strive to foster innovation, creativity and leadership skills in our students, preparing them for the future. We aspire to empower the next generation of thinkers, problem solvers, and engineers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fll explore (flle) - this program is designed for elementary students in grades 2-3 within the bloomfield hills school district, focusing on robotics programming. Following the first explore curriculum, this program utilizes lego spike essential robot kits and runs from september to december. Teams, limited to six students each, are typically organized as an after-school recreation program and are run by parent volunteers. The season concludes with the bloomfield bash, a celebratory event that also serves as a simulated competition to prepare students for the next level of participation as they age up. Bloomfield girls robotics competition (bgrc) - bgrc, an off-season competition hosted by team 2834 the bionick black hawks at bloomfield hills high school, is an inspiring event for young women in stem. Since its inception in 2015, this competition has welcomed female robotics teams from high schools across Michigan and was the first girls-only robotics event in the state. Proceeds from the bgrc go toward funding 1,000 college scholarships for senior girls, who are selected by a professional panel based on their essay submissions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.2%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.4%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.2% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $155K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.