Rockville Robotics Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821492333
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Rockville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2407808948
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,048
- Expenses
- $56,549
- Assets
- $63,223
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pankaj Oberoi (President 2024-2025)
People named in this filing
- Pankaj Oberoi (President 2024-2025)
- Seelig Sinton (Treasurer 2024-2025)
- Vipul Bhatnagar (Secretary 2024-2025)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Enabling K-12 participation in FIRST(tm) Robotics programs
What it reported doing in 2024
Project TAF-MTI: Supported annual high school robotics tournament (40 teams, typically 5-8 students per team) with nationwide participation + 8 international teams. June 27-29 2025 in Laurel, MD. https://sites.google.com/view/mdtechinvitational/home
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.