First Robotics Team 3357

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271424145
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Phone
6167106708
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Science and Technology N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$76,438
Expenses
$46,664
Assets
$60,708
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tim Peterson (President)

People named in this filing

  • Camden Pastyrnak (Director)
  • Tim Peterson (President)
  • Patrick MacLeod (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educational and community service for high school aged student participating in FIRST Robotics.

What it reported doing in 2025

The FIRST Robotics Team 3357 achieved the following service objectives in this fiscal year: 1) We directly educated more than 50 students about STEM, robotics, engineering, business, technology, design, CAD, project management, goal setting, programming, mechanical arts, electrical arts, skilled trades, physics, game strategy, communications, and more; 2) Our students served as mentors and advisors to multiple other educational robotics programs, indirectly educating hundreds of area students and parents on the same topics; and 3) Our students designed and developed multiple robots and competed in FIRST Robotics challenges.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% 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 available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 39%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 54; 54th 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: -17.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 39.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.