National Stem Talent Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 394707869
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fairfax, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7032096125
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,000
- Expenses
- $40,151
- Assets
- $9,849
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAM MAR (PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- PAUL SHERMAN (CHAIR AND DIRECTOR)
- ALLIE BROMLEY (SECRETARY, TREASURER, AND DIRECTOR)
- SAM MAR (PRESIDENT AND 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
The organization is dedicated to the advancement of science, technology, and opportunity. It pursues this mission by (i) identifying and nurturing the next generation of scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technologists, and (ii) improving the systems and institutions of the scientific enterprise. To these ends, the organization advocates for and supports the adoption of policies at the local, state, and federal levels that promote, protect, and expand opportunities for talented young people to develop their abilities, and that accelerate, strengthen, and modernize the conduct of science.
What it reported doing in 2025
Science systems: the organization advocates for policies that accelerate the advancement of science and technology by increasing the pace of scientific discovery, improving the rigor and reproducibility of scientific research, reducing the costs and frictions inherent in the scientific process, and modernizing the institutions, infrastructure, tools, and practices through which science is conducted. Activities include education of members of congress and their staff, federal executive branch officials across multiple departments and agencies, and national scientific, research, and policy organizations. In furtherance of these activities, the organization may engage lobbyists and consultants, conduct public education campaigns, participate in coalitions, and make grants to other organizations whose work advances these objectives. In 2025, the organization educated federal policy makers on reforms to federal scientific grantmaking and research expenditure practices.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.2%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 96.2%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 20; 20th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.2% of revenue deployed · 96.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.