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YOUNG STEAMERS

EIN 92-0611373 FREMONT, CA

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Revenue 2025
$222,762
Expenses 2025
$94,679

Program services were 80.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
40521 AMBAR PL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

YOUNG STEAMERS PROVIDES HANDS-ON STEAM EDUCATION, CAREER EXPLORATION, AND MENTORSHIP TO UNDERSERVED YOUTH, CLOSING OPPORTUNITY GAPS AND CREATING PATHWAYS TO EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC SUCCESS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WE PROVIDE FREE STEAM ENRICHMENT TO LOW-INCOME CHILDREN & STEM CAREER GUIDANCE FOR YOUTH. WE HIRE COLLEGE STUDENTS AS INSTRUCTORS & TRAIN HIGH SCHOOLERS AS AIDES, CREATING A FULL-CIRCLE OF COMMUNITY-LED EDUCATION TO BRIDGE THE OPPORTUNITY GAP IN STEM.

  • YOUNG STEAMERS OFFERS FREE, YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMS THAT SPARK INTEREST IN STEAM AND OPEN PATHWAYS TO STEM CAREERS FOR LOW-INCOME CHILDREN & YOUTH. 1) STEAM CLASSES ENGAGE K8 STUDENTS IN HANDS-ON CORE SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, PHYSICS, & TECH ENRICHMENT. INSTRUCTORS AND AIDES ARE ALSO ROLE MODELS THAT INSPIRE AND EMPOWER. 2)AT FAMILY EVENTS, PARENTS GAIN TOOLS TO SUPPORT THEIR CHILDRENS EDUCATION AND CAREER EXPLORATION. 3)CAREER COMPASS EVENTS INTRODUCE YOUTH TO REAL-WORLD STEM CAREERS AND CONNECT STUDENTS WITH PROFESSIONALS THROUGH MONTHLY VIRTUAL PANELS. 4) OUR EMPLOYMENT MODEL BUILDS A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PIPELINE OF COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS & HIGH SCHOOL AIDES WHO GAIN EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, & NETWORK. IN 2025, WE TAUGHT 2,694 STUDENTS, DELIVERED 440 LESSONS AT 26 SITES, & TRAINED 22 INSTRUCTORS.

    Expenses $75,940 · Revenue $220,778

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Orna Kretchmer PhD

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $3,846
    From this org
    $3,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Christina Melnarik PhD

    COO

    Total calculated
    $3,846
    From this org
    $3,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Irene S Landaw MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Talila Golan PhD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Suzanne Young

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $222,762
    Expenses
    $94,679
    Contributions
    $123,365
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $78,594
    Expenses
    $46,303
    Contributions
    $22,410
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,871
    Expenses
    $171
    Contributions
    $8,871
    Grants paid
    not reported

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.