Lakota Robotics LLC
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831757990
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Middletown, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5135931229
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,645,433
- Expenses
- $146,225
- Assets
- $1,783,367
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jimmy Nichols (President)
People named in this filing
- Dave Baringer (Board Member)
- Linda Cassidy (Board Member)
- Sandy Wheatley (Boad 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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We inspire young people to pursue careers in science and technology using a unique and fun learning experience in an environment that fosters creativity and models those careers. We engage young people and equip them with skills necessary to become confident, responsibile,...
What it reported doing in 2024
First Lego Lague-Guided by two or more adult coaches, teams research a real world problem such as food safety, recycling, energy, etc and are challenged to develop a solution. they also must design, build, program a robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS, then compete on a table top playing field. Paticipants apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts (STEM), plus a big dose of imagination, to solve a problem. Along their journey, they develop critical thinking and team building skills, basic solutions with a dash of creativity to judges. They also practice the Programs Core Values, which emphasize discovery, teamwork and good sportsmanship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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 - 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: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 94
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.4%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th 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: 91.1%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.2; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 55.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $146K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.