Oak Creek High School Robotics Booster Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812711686
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Oak Creek, WI, USA
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$96,194
Expenses
$87,486
Assets
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Dani Palm (Lead Mentor)
  • Matthew Holl (Treasurer)
  • Brian Hicks (Mentor)

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

Traveling High School robotics competition team

What it reported doing in 2025

Designed built programmed and fielded a competitive robot for the 2025-2026 FIRST Robotics Competition season providing project-based engineering and business training to students. Student Impact: Served a diverse student body including 15 students from under-resourced communities ensuring equitable cost-free access to all competitions and travel resources. Skill Development: Delivered hands-on mastery in computer-aided design CAD advanced manufacturing electrical engineering programming and project management. Diversity Initiatives: Expanded technical and leadership opportunities for female students in engineering fields through the targeted GEM Gender Equality in Manufacturing initiative. Community Outreach: Utilized the custom-built robot to anchor local STEM demonstrations mentoring activities and community outreach events to inspire future generations toward advanced manufacturing careers. Competitive Excellence: Maintained a pipeline of workforce-ready individuals while building on previous historic milestones which include winning the Seven Rivers Regional earning dual Innovation in Control Awards placing third at the State Championship and finishing as a Division top-three finalist at the FIRST World Championship.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 9.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • 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: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.