Missouri · Nonprofit
Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation
Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,997 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation does
Mission
To provide support and resources to FIRST Robotics teams in Boone County Missouri
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation renovated and outfitted a new 2,000 sq ft robotics facility in Parkade Plaza. The first full year of facility operation was very successful with regular use by 4 FTC teams including each of the 3 main CPS high schools one FLL team and the Army Ants FRC team for a total of ~10,000 youth-hours. In addition the facility hosted ~150 youth in robotics camps. All the FTC teams and the Army Ants participated in multiple competitions and won awards. The Army Ants won the highest award of FIRST the Impact Award at the 10,000 Lakes Regional in Minneapolis in March 2025 and competed in the FIRST Championship in Houston in April 2025 serving as team captain in the playoffs in 2025 for the first time.
$87,856 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,856.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kevin Gillis
Chair Board of directors
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $13k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.
“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
64% of Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $213 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation: 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 Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation?
- Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,997 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $54,997 in grants to Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation?
- VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Columbia Educational Robotics Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2025–2025), 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