- Revenue 2024
- $704,063
- Expenses 2024
- $731,407
Program services were 97.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- O50
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 1551 ALGONQUIN RD 1078
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
The primary mission is to enhance STEM based education. The most significant activities are the coordination of FIRST Robotics programs in the state of Illinois. The organization currently focuses on children 6 to18 years old through three different programs.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The primary mission is to enhance STEM based education. The most significant activities are the coordination of FIRST Robotics programs in the state of Illinois. The organization currently focuses on children 6 to 18 years old through three different programs.
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FIRST LEGO League has 2 subprograms - FIRST LEGO League Challenge and FIRST LEGO League Explore. FIRST LEGO League Challenge - Over 480 teams participated in the FIRST LEGO League Challenge program in Illinois this season. Approximately 3600 students participated in the program. Approximately 400 students participated in FIRST LEGO League Explore last year.
Expenses $175,218 · Grants $62,466 · Revenue $108,060
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FIRST Tech Challenge - Over 170 teams participated in Illinois during the past year. All events returned to in person tournaments. An online robot simulator software application was also developed. Approximately 1700 students participated in the program.
Expenses $412,144 · Grants $285,347 · Revenue $52,595
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FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST Robotics Competition activity in Illinois is run by FIRST (501c3 in New Hampshire). Inscite Illinois (DBA FIRST Illinois Robotics) assists FIRST in this program. The majority of the revenue within Inscite Illinois is related to local fund raising to cover running the program nationally including Illinois. Approximately 1200 students were involved in teams in Illinois.
Expenses $125,339 · Grants $125,079
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.
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Robert Hubberts
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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James Naughton
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Mark Gaines
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Adam Bowen
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Barry Greenhouse
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Robert Armstrong
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Deepak Kaul
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kelly Berlin
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ravi Gundimeda
Board Member
- 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $704,063
- Expenses
- $731,407
- Contributions
- $530,220
- Grants paid
- $472,892
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2023
- Revenue
- $961,174
- Expenses
- $800,148
- Contributions
- $797,886
- Grants paid
- $527,448
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2022
- Revenue
- $596,777
- Expenses
- $644,906
- Contributions
- $448,816
- Grants paid
- $360,248
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $552,948
- Expenses
- $549,371
- Assets (EOY)
- $480,701
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $382,410
- Expenses
- $261,498
- Assets (EOY)
- $541,734
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
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2022 FUNDING FOR ROBOTICS PROGRAMS NATIONALLY AND IN SUPPORT OF ILLINOIS ROBOTICS TEAMS
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2023 FUNDING FOR ROBOTICS PROGRAMS NATIONALLY AND IN SUPPORT OF ILLINOIS ROBOTICS TEAMS
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For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
$63,000
2024 Funding for Robotics Program nationally and in support of Illinois Robotics teams
Grants received
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2023 Program Support
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$24,000
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2022 Program Support
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$16,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 Program Support
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.