Maryland STEM Festival Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823713609
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Columbia, MD, USA
Rating
39
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Parks and Playgrounds

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$108,635
Expenses
$107,131
Assets
$25,327

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Phil Rogofsky (Executive Director)
  • Stef Long-Murphy (President)

People named in this filing

  • Phil Rogofsky (Executive Director)
  • Stef Long-Murphy (President)
  • Kenny Bayton (Board of 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

To provide an annual event to inspire students to pursue careers in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics.

What it reported doing in 2025

To operate Non Signature Events

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 33.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.