Ohio · Nonprofit
DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC
DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $919,324 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($425,809). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $919k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Dayton Regional STEM Schools Inc does
Mission
Prepare students with the skills necessary to compete in the global economy while nurturing in our young peopole that same enthusiasm for discovery, invention, and application that launched the vision for powered flight. This mission is inspired by the dayton region's history and is aimed at ensuring our community's future success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The dayton regional stem schools is an independent public stem school serving students from gades 6-12. We are committed to providing a quality education to the young minds of the dayton region through project based learning and career exploration, and our five qualitites: creativity, inquiry, collaboration, persistence and communication. During the school year we served 785 students, from over 36 school district in seven local counties.
$9,942,071 spent$911,483 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,942,071.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $23M to $48M (+111%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 53% · 2018 89% · 2019 73% · 2020 89% · 2021 87% · 2022 94% · 2023 89% · 2024 91% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $53k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC’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
DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 41% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 56% · 2022 86% · 2023 85% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
56% of DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC'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 $37k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $883k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC: 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 DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC?
- DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $919,324 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($425,809). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $919,324 in grants to DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC?
- DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY is the largest funder on record, with $425,809 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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