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WISCONSIN FIRST ROBOTICS INC

EIN 86-3733823 PEWAUKEE, WI

Revenue 2024
$848,272
Expenses 2024
$801,615

Program services were 90.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1200
Street
N41W28660 IMPERIAL DR

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

TO SPREAD THE REACH OF THE FIRST PROGRAM THROUGH WISCONSIN TO PROVIDE K-12 STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP SKILLS IN STEM, BUSINESS, TEAMWORK AND REAL WORLD PROBLEM SOLVING.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE K-12 STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP SKILLS IN STEM, BUSINESS, TEAMWORK AND REAL WORLD PROBLEM SOLVING THROUGH THE FIRST PROGRAM.

  • SUCCESSFULLY COORDINATED AND SUPPORTED THREE FIRST TECH CHALLENGE KICKOFF EVENTS, TWO OFFSEASON EVENTS, 10 QUALIFYING TOURNAMENTS, AND ONE FIRST TECH CHALLENGE WISCONSIN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, WHICH ADVANCED THREE TEAMS TO THE FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP AND FIVE WISCONSIN TEAMS TO FTC PREMIER EVENTS. THESE EVENTS WERE SUPPORTED BY 323 UNIQUE EVENT VOLUNTEERS, WHICH ALLOWED OVER 722 STUDENTS FROM 90 TEAMS TO COMPETE IN THE PROGRAM. THESE TEAMS WERE SUPPORTED BY 281 ADULT MENTORS.

    Expenses $726,011 · Grants $138,920 · Revenue $68,223

  • HOSTED FOUR FIRST TECH CHALLENGE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING SESSIONS AT MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING (2), WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE (1), AND UW-STOUT (1) WITH ONE CERTIFIED FIRST TECH CHALLENGE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINER. THE EVENTS CONCLUDED WITH 41 CERTIFIED TEACHERS/MENTORS AND CREATED OR SUSTAINED 33 MIDDLE SCHOOL FIRST TECH CHALLENGE TEAMS.

  • SUCCESSFULLY COORDINATED AND SUPPORTED FOUR FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION KICKOFF EVENTS AND THREE FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION REGIONAL EVENTS. THESE EVENTS WERE COORDINATED BY 265 UNIQUE VOLUNTEERS, WHICH ALLOWED OVER 1,396 STUDENTS TO BE SUPPORTED ACROSS 70 TEAMS. THESE TEAMS WERE SUPPORTED BY 750 ADULT MENTORS. IN ADDITION TO SUPPORTING THE WISCONSIN TEAMS AND STUDENTS, BETWEEN THE TWO REGIONAL EVENTS THERE WERE 39 OUT-OF-STATE TEAMS WHO ATTENDED THE COMPETITIONS, IMPACTING ANOTHER 975 STUDENTS FOR A TOTAL OF 2,371 YOUTH IMPACTED.

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.

  • Renee Becker-Blau

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $88,660
    From this org
    $88,660
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jeffrey Fenstermaker

    BOARD CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Sean Schuff

    VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ryan Jipp

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Cook

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Woods

    PAST SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Fuhr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Arrow Guetschow

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jenna Joestgen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Juli Pickering

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darrin Rothe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Megan Volkening

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erin Siemandel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bree Gahagan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tiffany Hoage

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Austin Lee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kyrie Lemahieu

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Samuels

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $848,272
    Expenses
    $801,615
    Contributions
    $762,541
    Grants paid
    $138,920
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $759,880
    Expenses
    $656,235
    Contributions
    $707,686
    Grants paid
    $84,600
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $392,775
    Expenses
    $11,550
    Contributions
    $382,222
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $229,227
    Expenses
    $181,544
    Contributions
    $200,120
    Grants paid
    $67,250

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

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $39,599
    Expenses
    $721
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,878

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.

Grants made

  • FOR INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FIRST)

    $33,000

    2024 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

  • ELMBROOK SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $17,000

    2024 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    $14,730

    2024 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

  • ELMBROOK SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $14,500

    2023 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    $10,500

    2022 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

  • MILWAUKEE ROBOTICS ACADEMY

    $10,500

    2024 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

  • ELMBROOK SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $9,750

    2022 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

  • HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL

    $9,000

    2022 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    $8,000

    2023 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

  • HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $6,000

    2024 FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM

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

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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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.