Red Alert Robotics Parent Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364603591
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Greenwood, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3178511366
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,163
- Expenses
- $128,268
- Assets
- $58,565
- Liabilities
- $3,421
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Benjamin Roberts (President)
- Shwetha Krishnan (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Benjamin Roberts (President)
- Shwetha Krishnan (Vice President)
- Karen Limbruner (Treasurer)
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 inspire students to use their talents to be problem solvers while fostering teamwork. Mentors facilitate team development by focusing on quality, safety and gracious professionalism. The field of robotics is the arena in which the teams address real world problems through the application of their science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide STEM related educational materials and experiences to students (elementary through high school). This is accomplished through the design and construction of robots capable of competing in FRC (FIRST Robotics Challenge), FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) and FLL (FIRST LEGO League) tournaments. During the filing year, 35 FRC, 32 FTC and 18 FLL students were guided by teams of mentors during the tournament season.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% 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. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 93.7%; 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: 17.9%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $120K 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: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.