Lambert Robotics Booster Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994244404
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Suwanee, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4702534190
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,336
- Expenses
- $96,419
- Assets
- $33,212
- Liabilities
- $2,758
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Harris (President)
- Aruna Gutta (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Robert Harris (President)
- Aruna Gutta (Vice President)
- Surya Medchalam (Treasurer)
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
The purpose of the Corporation is to provide financial volunteer and organizational support to Lambert High School's robotics program. It exists to encourage and advance the Lambert High School robotics program and related activities that promote STEM education in Lambert High School and the surrounding community. The Corporation also supports the mission of FIRST Robotics within Lambert High School and the surrounding community which is to provide life-changing robotics programs that give young people the skills confidence and resilience to build a better world.
What it reported doing in 2025
--2026 FRC Robotics Competition Season (FRC Team 9477)-- In its third season, FRC Team 9477 at Lambert High School was supported for the first time by the Lambert Robotics Booster Association (LRBA). Sixty-three students participated on the team with approximately 25 adult volunteers and mentors. The fielded a B-team ("Gamma") competing under the same number to provide a leadership and skills training pipeline for the main competition team ("Lambda"). Together, Lambda competed in two district qualifiers where it served as an alliance captain in each qualifier. Lambda advanced to the Peachtree District Championship, where it served as an alliance captain and finished rank 9 of 45. Gamma competed in one out-of-district event earning a spot in the playoffs and finishing rank 18 of 26. LRBA's fundraising enabled the team to design and build a custom robot, construct a full-scale practice field, purchase "super pit" road cases, a utility trailer for transportation, practice field carpet, and set aside funds for the 2027 season. The Lambda team improved its competition record from the previous season from 23-22-1 to 29-13-0.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 58.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.1% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.