California · Nonprofit
CHARGING ROBOTICS
CHARGING ROBOTICS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,386 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($351,986). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $384k
- Net assets
- $115k
What Charging Robotics does
Mission
This organization is founded and organized exclusively for high schoolers to participate in regional, national and world First Robotics Competition purposes. It is operated for educational purposes only. The team members are high schoolers from local area high schools. They work on nights, weekends, holidays, and breaks to prepare and compete in First Robotics Competitions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
FIRST Team 6560 Charging Champions is a community-driven high school robotics team in Irvine, California formed by students who all share an interest in robotics and STEM programs Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. In 2017, our team built three robots and placed highly in regional and was one of the top teams to reach world championships in the FRC circuit. During the 2018 season, our team replenished with extremely qualified freshmen and sophomore students from various high schools in Irvine, and we intend on improving upon our past seasons with FIRST Robotics by refining our design and build process, improving our community outreach. The FRC robotics program teaches and refines the students' STEM skills in robot-building, programming, mechanical design, mathematical calculations, Computer Aided Design CAD, website development, technical strategy and video production. Our students also learn business skills by developing our marketing plans, social media strategies, fundraising campaigns and community outreach. Some of the team members were alumni of FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech Challenge, two programs for younger kids to learn robotics. The team members will grow…
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $34k to $105k (+207%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of CHARGING ROBOTICS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Mahadeva Valalekattekoppal
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $50k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHARGING ROBOTICS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHARGING ROBOTICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHARGING ROBOTICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CHARGING ROBOTICS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $383k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CHARGING ROBOTICS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHARGING ROBOTICS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARGING ROBOTICS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARGING ROBOTICS?
- CHARGING ROBOTICS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,386 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($351,986). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHARGING ROBOTICS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $384,386 in grants to CHARGING ROBOTICS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARGING ROBOTICS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $351,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARGING ROBOTICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing