Aerospace Mechanisms Symposia
Legal name: Mechanisms Education Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383539386
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tujunga, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8189519570
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67
- Expenses
- $12,386
- Assets
- $178,512
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jonathan Wood (General Chairman)
- Ronald Mancini (Treasurer)
- Donald Sevilla (Operations Chairman)
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
Facilitate education in the aerospace community by conducting a semi-annual aerospace mechanisms symposium and sponsoring youth education in engineering. One or two figures, preferably containing test data that supports important findings and photographs to illustrate the maturity of the work. Indicate if the submission is to be considered only for a poster paper, only for a full paper, or either one. Paper selection is based on the following criteria:. Ability to educate with “lessons learned” from development difficulties, ground tests, or flight anomalies. First preference is given to papers that discuss fully-developed, tested and/or flown space or aircraft mechanisms. Lessons learned are particularly important; such papers are often more valuable than reports of purely successful efforts since they help others avoid similar problems in the future. University student space...
What it reported doing in 2025
Aerospace engineering education offered to attendees of conference. Facilitate 2-day technical classes in conference hotel, preceding the aerospace conference. The engineering classes typically involve ball bearing technology and/or tribology. These classes are independently funded, staffed and managed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 68% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 59.6%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18,386.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.41; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 46.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 59.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.