Totals
- Total revenue
- $177,754
- Total expenses
- $98,617
- Contributions and grants received
- $130,970
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $41,603
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $0
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $2,364
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $2,679
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $138
- Total assets, end of year
- $343,358
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $343,358
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $40,588
Program services were 41.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2023
Primary exempt purpose
At growingSTEMS, our mission is to ignite a lifelong passion for learning and innovation by providing accessible and engaging robotics education to children of all ages. We believe that every child deserves the opportunity to explore, create, and excel in the world of robotics, and we are committed to empowering them with the skills and knowledge they need to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven world.
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FIRST Robotics - Mentors guide students through team-based problem-solving projects and compete via FIRST organization, which has 1000s of teams worldwide. Students also attend community events such as the St. Mary's College of Maryland River Concert Series (~5000 visitors) St. Mary's County Public School STEM events (~1000 visitors) and the US National Oyster Festival (~16000 visitors), where they provide free hands-on activities such as building paper rockets, driving robots, and simple chemistry experiments. This category includes the FIRST FRC and FTC teams.
Expenses $22,979
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Combat Robotics - Program participants develop engineering skills and design/manufacture robots focused on violence for use in various competitions (e.g., National Havoc Robot League). This category includes the internal and travel teams, as well as the in-house combat-focused summer camps.
Expenses $16,666
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VEX Robotics - Mentors guide students through team-based problem-solving projects and compete via the FIRST organization. This category includes the VEX IQ and GO teams.
Expenses $943
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Erik Wood
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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Zachary Stachelczyk
Vice Chairman / Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Andrew Koch
Secretary / Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 12
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Larry Branthoover
Member at Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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Petra Branthoover
Member at Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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John Ingram
Member at Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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Tim Miedzinski
Member at Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Tom Moulds
Member at Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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Stephen Page
Member at Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 14 April 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202521349349200642
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