California · Nonprofit
GENERATION STEAM
GENERATION STEAM (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,576,937 to it, the largest being Illumina Corporate Foundation ($1,066,758). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $489k
What Generation Steam does
Mission
We advocate for investing in steam education as one of the most effective ways to build a secure socio-economic environment for everyone regardless of race, creed, gender or personal beliefs. We feel that it is everyone's job not just teachers to spark excitement and curiosity in the minds of young people. We lead by example in developing partnerships and initiatives that will advance this cause.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We advocate for investing in steam education as one of the most effective ways to build a secure socio-economic environment for everyone regardless of race, creed, gender or personal beliefs. We feel that it is everyone's job not just teachers to spark excitement and curiosity in the minds of young people. We lead by example in developing partnerships and initiatives that will advance this cause.
$1,081,821 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,081,821.
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.
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 $341k to $1.0M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 14% · 2023 55% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $373k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 GENERATION STEAM’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
GENERATION STEAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 GENERATION STEAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 75% · 2022 62% · 2023 59% — 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
GENERATION STEAM draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $423k 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.
Organizations like GENERATION STEAM
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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Biocom California · exempt
- Biocom Institute · exempt
- Biocom Purchasing Group · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GENERATION STEAM: 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 GENERATION STEAM?
- GENERATION STEAM (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,576,937 to it, the largest being Illumina Corporate Foundation ($1,066,758). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENERATION STEAM have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,576,937 in grants to GENERATION STEAM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENERATION STEAM?
- Illumina Corporate Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,066,758 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENERATION STEAM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing