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FIRST IN MICHIGAN

EIN 33-1184695 SOUTHFIELD, MI

Revenue 2024
$3,558,976
Expenses 2024
$2,916,056

Program services were 90.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N50
Classification
2000
Street
29566 NORTHWESTERN HWY STE 120

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 ESTABLISH A SUSTAINABLE FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION TEAM AT EVERY HIGH SCHOOL IN MICHIGAN. TO FOSTER EARLY INTEREST IN FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS THROUGH FIRST LEGO LEAGUE AND FIRST TECH CHALLENGE IN LATE ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS.

  • PROVIDE INNOVATIVE SKILL-BUILDING PROGRAMS IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH TEAM-BASED ACTIVITIES. COORDINATE EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF MICHIGAN FOR EACH OF THE PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $2,648,544 · Revenue $1,185,401

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.

  • GAIL ALPERT

    CHAIRMAN /PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $156,000
    From this org
    $156,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $156,000

  • TAMMY DAMRATH

    VICE CHAIR/VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $110,000
    From this org
    $110,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • TOM STEPHENS

    VICE-CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS BALLARD

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE AMBROSE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • HALEY HART

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WENDY LJUNGREN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • PAT MAJOR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • LISA SAVAGE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • TRISTA SCHIEFFER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • JEFF SIMEK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DON UFFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • LEEROY WELLS JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • JIM ZONDAG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIMBERLY MULLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

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. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,558,976
    Expenses
    $2,916,056
    Contributions
    $2,225,180
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,575,420
    Expenses
    $3,190,148
    Contributions
    $2,277,450
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,104,770
    Expenses
    $2,877,033
    Contributions
    $1,902,096
    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

    Revenue
    $3,174,328
    Expenses
    $2,389,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,929,398

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,443,658
    Expenses
    $1,415,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,058,159

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,495,863
    Expenses
    $1,805,539
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,023,056

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,616,247
    Expenses
    $2,674,533
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,826,343

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,399,908
    Expenses
    $2,168,054
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,466,172

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,074,823
    Expenses
    $1,830,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,157,324

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,604,659
    Expenses
    $1,294,008
    Assets (EOY)
    $884,700

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,023,008
    Expenses
    $765,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $590,121

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $807,133
    Expenses
    $717,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $311,468

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $587,040
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,119

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

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