Fireworks Educational Programs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463156352
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lanham, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3019049641
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,471
- Expenses
- $30,230
- Assets
- $79,322
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sanetra Newman (Executive Director)
- Kamili Shaw (President, Board of Directors)
- Torry Johnson (Vice President, Board of Directors)
People named in this filing
- Sanetra Newman (Executive Director)
- Kamili Shaw (President, Board of Directors)
- Torry Johnson (Vice President, Board of Directors)
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
STEM Education for Middle and High School Students
What it reported doing in 2025
FIRE STEM served 82 students in several hands on competitions where they learned STEM topics as well as leadership, teamwork and resilience. Types of competitions include robots, model rockets and math. The students regularly placed in competitions including a 1st place in the Middle School Fire Rockets competition.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.1%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.5%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.62; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.1% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.