Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

FOUNDATION FOR INSPIRATION & RECOGNITION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY I

EIN 27-2657899 SAN ANTONIO, TX

Browse the largest nonprofits in Texas

Revenue 2024
$3,194,603
Expenses 2024
$3,510,414

Program services were 85.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P99
Classification
1250
Street
2186 JACKSON KELLER ROAD STE 2132

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 · 2024

Mission

FIRST in Texas provides life-changing robotics programs that equip young peple across Texas with skills, confidence, and resilience to build a better world.

  • Served over 23000 students, 2000 teams, 20000 volunteers, and 90000 event volunteer hours. over 300 schoold districts, 1150 youth organizations, 49% from title 1 schools

    Expenses $2,991,071 · Revenue $1,043,718

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Eric Van Gemeren

    ChairmanExecutive Director

    Total calculated
    $135,000
    From this org
    $135,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Angela James

    Finance Manager

    Total calculated
    $90,000
    From this org
    $90,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Len Rucinski

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Natasha Wilkerson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Cindy Strong

    BOD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shawn Preston

    BOD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Schaffer

    BOD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stefanie Breyer

    BOD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Bates

    BOD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kazique Prince

    BOD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Fleece

    BOD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Summer Cannon

    Finance Manager

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,194,603
    Expenses
    $3,510,414
    Contributions
    $2,150,885
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,276,614
    Expenses
    $3,529,653
    Contributions
    $2,033,700
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,731,821
    Expenses
    $2,733,221
    Contributions
    $2,242,940
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,927,837
    Expenses
    $2,450,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $947,347

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,208,599
    Expenses
    $2,296,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $420,176

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,026,501
    Expenses
    $2,040,372
    Assets (EOY)
    $533,530

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,426,693
    Expenses
    $1,271,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,013

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,375,199
    Expenses
    $1,224,861
    Assets (EOY)
    $380,018

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $705,691
    Expenses
    $647,442
    Assets (EOY)
    $140,475

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $710,823
    Expenses
    $624,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,123

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $835,037
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,565

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $820,659
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,457

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $797,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,130

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 November 2022, reinstated 15 November 2022.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.