LITTLETON SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS EDUCAT and Mathematics Educational Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813261821
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Littleton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9784863612
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,475
- Expenses
- $121,270
- Assets
- $127,399
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Powers (President)
People named in this filing
- Michelle Tuck (Chairperson)
- David Powers (President)
- Katharine Bonner (Clerk)
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
Littleton STEM Educational Foundation prepares students to pursue careers in science and technology by forging partnerships of mutual respect with mentors, parents, sponsors, and our community. We focus on collaborative learning within the team and with our larger community to build confidence and skills in teamwork, leadership, accountability, and communication as well as technical and business work skills using the real-world engineering projects of FIRST.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our flagship program is FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team 6328 "Mechanical Advantage" for 8th-12th grade, serving 40-45 students annually. Since 2016, FRC 6328 has earned 22 event win banners, including 9 prestigious Impact Awards; World Championship Division wins in 2022-2024; plus many technical and culture awards. More important than awards, though, is our impact and outreach (2,800+ hours last season), such as: - Demos at community events across the region - Organizing 20+ FIRST teams for demos at Providence's Waterfire arts festival the last three years - Planning/running the New England Mentor Conference since 2024, connecting 100+ FIRST coaches from across the US
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 94.1%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.8%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 94.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $114K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.