Full Steam Ahead

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821781888
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Minot, ND, USA
Phone
5073983327
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$78,810
Expenses
$95,812
Assets
$11,499
Liabilities
$792

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • ALLISON R AUCH (EXECUTIVE DI)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization's mission is to provide cultural enrichment to the children of the minot area through enjoyable exciting and creative experiences; focusing on science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics.

What it reported doing in 2024

Full steam ahead is an umbrella organization that helped meld youth arts with science, technology, engineering and math. Make a scene kid's theatre, minot robotics, minot 3-6 year old tball, minot youth kickball league and kid's clay all fall under this umbrella.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.5%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -21.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -24.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.5% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.