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SPEED OF LIGHT- THE ASTRO FOUN

EIN 51-0178702 ARLINGTON, VA

Revenue 2025
$914,017
Expenses 2025
$1,419,116

Program services were 39.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G30
Classification
1000
Street
251 18TH ST SOUTH 8TH FLOOR

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).

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.

  • GITA SUNEJA

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JASON A EFSTATHIOU

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHILLIP DEVLIN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COLLEEN A F LAWTON

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RONALD CHEN

    RESEARCH COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $2,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $2,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOIN Y LUH

    DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JERRY JABOIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $2,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $2,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEEPAK KHUNTIA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RON DIGIAIMO

    TRUSTEE UNTIL 12/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FUMIKO CHINO

    TRUSTEE AS OF 01/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN BUATTI

    ASTRO REPRESENTATION UNTIL 09/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • JEFF MICHALSKI

    ASTRO REPRESENTATION UNTIL 09/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • HOWARD SANDLER

    ASTRO REPRESENTATION AS OF 09/25

    Total calculated
    $2,500
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $2,500
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • WENDY WOODWARD

    ASTRO REPRESENTATION AS OF 09/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • VIVEK S KAVADI

    EXEC DIR, SECR, AND ASST TREAS

    Total calculated
    $665,075
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $613,024
    Other
    $52,051
    Hours/week
    4 + 36 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $613,024 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $18,320 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $33,731 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $665,075 related

  • LAURA I THEVENOT FORMER EXEC

    DIR, SECR, AND ASST TREAS

    Total calculated
    $229,966
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $216,989
    Other
    $12,977
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $102,783 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $114,206 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $12,977 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $229,966 related

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $914,017
    Expenses
    $1,419,116
    Contributions
    $230,123
    Grants paid
    $343,746
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $983,846
    Expenses
    $963,967
    Contributions
    $310,990
    Grants paid
    $330,653
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $518,598
    Expenses
    $1,017,164
    Contributions
    $306,073
    Grants paid
    $417,590
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $623,983
    Expenses
    $978,605
    Contributions
    $357,251
    Grants paid
    $415,899

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.