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FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC

FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,816 to it, the largest being POINT32HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($40,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$130k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$53k
Net assets
$8k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Friends of Tj2 Robotics Inc does

Mission

Supporting public education students in FIRST events and competitions. (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided support for approximately 60 students to participatein several FIRST events including the New England RegionalChampionships.

    $134,932 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $134,932.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($123k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($61k)2019 Revenue 90 ($111k) Expenses 156 ($131k) Net assets 67 ($41k)2020 Revenue 76 ($94k) Expenses 62 ($52k) Net assets 136 ($83k)2021 Revenue 46 ($57k) Expenses 31 ($26k) Net assets 187 ($114k)2022 Revenue 61 ($75k) Expenses 188 ($158k) Net assets 52 ($32k)2023 Revenue 132 ($163k) Expenses 179 ($150k) Net assets 73 ($45k)2024 Revenue 67 ($82k) Expenses 135 ($113k) Net assets 22 ($13k)2025 Revenue 105 ($130k) Expenses 161 ($135k) Net assets 13 ($8k)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (161)Net assets (13)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $114k to $32k (−72%).

$61k
$41k
$83k
$114k
$32k
$45k
$13k
$8k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
’18
−$20k
’19
$42k
’20
$31k
’21
−$82k
’22
$13k
’23
−$31k
’24
−$5k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $10k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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total
funders
1
2
1
3
3
2
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC’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

FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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

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 FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC.

77%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 91% · 2023 97% — 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

100% of FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC?
FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,816 to it, the largest being POINT32HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($40,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $52,816 in grants to FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC?
POINT32HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), 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