Western Region Robotics Forum Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 571167186
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4088282643
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Engineering
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,279
- Expenses
- $6,594
- Assets
- $18,255
- 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
- Mike Schmit (President)
People named in this filing
- Mike Schmit (President)
- Alvin Cheng (Secretary)
- Cecilia Craig (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) education for K-12 students through annual CalGames high school For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) off-season FIRST Robotics Competitions; Robotics Workshops and Conferences.
What it reported doing in 2024
Workshop registration covers expenses, principally food (60 volunteers & instructors) with excess towards general expenses. Workshops: Nov-10, 2024 (92 attendees). Workshops: An intro to Swerve: how it works, logic behind it, and optimization; electronics; robot subsystems and controls; outreach; printer dissection; team organization and sustainability and team structure; strategy; human centered robotics; streamline FRC code; UCSC research for hybrid motion planning; rookie team struggles; Intro to vision in FRC; SJSU robotics panel. For the first time, conference had panels where multiple speakers with relevant experience in a common topic (industry, women-in-STEM, international competition) briefly presented their experiences and then answered questions from the audience. The Women in STEM panel ended with students and mentors present exchanging contact information for future discussions, our STEM Careers panel extended even after the main conference event with one speaker from SCU showing attendees around the lab, and international FRC panel showcased two international teams, one of which answered questions live. For the first time, conference had e-waste collection bins next to the entrance of the event, which was overflowing by the end of the conference.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 70.5%; rating input score 70
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: 9.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.77; rating input score 73; 73rd 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: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 70.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.