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GROWINGSTEMS INC

EIN 46-0573936 HOLLYWOOD, MD

Revenue 2024
$214,510
Expenses 2024
$135,795

Program services were 52.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H92
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 736

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

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.

  • 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 team.

    Expenses $28,861 · Revenue $14,100

  • 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 $16,494 · Revenue $15,470

  • VEX Robotics - Mentors guide students through team-based problem-solving projects and compete via the VEX organization. This category includes the VEX IQ and GO teams.

    Expenses $21,987 · Revenue $12,235

  • Sale of STEM related merchandise, such as motors for the combat program and uniforms for the FRC program.

    Expenses $4,400 · Revenue $4,031

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.

  • Erik Wood

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Zachary Stachelczyk

    Vice Chairman / Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Andrew Koch

    Secretary / Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Larry Branthoover

    Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Petra Branthoover

    Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • John Ingram

    Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Tim Miedzinski

    Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Tom Moulds

    Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Stephen Page

    Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

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
    $214,510
    Expenses
    $135,795
    Contributions
    $160,348
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $177,754
    Expenses
    $98,617
    Contributions
    $130,970
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $312,119
    Expenses
    $104,514
    Contributions
    $274,061
    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

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $94,005
    Expenses
    $88,338
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,007

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $42,989
    Expenses
    $39,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,940

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $100,542
    Expenses
    $70,936
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,438

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $80,455
    Expenses
    $71,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,327

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $80,657
    Expenses
    $96,123
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,295

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $81,805
    Expenses
    $74,315
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,761

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $65,928
    Expenses
    $73,480
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,271

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

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 February 2015, reinstated 15 February 2015.

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.