California · Nonprofit
GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION
GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,532 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,332). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $815k
What Grant Imahara Steam Foundation does
Mission
To inspire emerging talent and empower historically marginalized youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ROBOBATTLES: Robobattles is a revolutionary hands-on robotics program for students ages 7-14. Participants build, battle, and role play with their very own LEGO Bots. They learn everything from engineering to design, programming, mental health, conflict resolution, and teamwork. The Grant Imahara STEAM Foundation has made this pay-level content available for free for home-based, in-school, and out-of-school learning.
$49,552 spentof which $27,738 as grants44% of program spendingSTEAM Star: STEAM Star is a groundbreaking short-form, premium content series. Each lesson begins with a TikTok style video featuring a star with a dream job. This is followed by hands-on, standards-aligned exercises inspired by the star's work. The Grant Imahara STEAM Foundation has made this pay-level content available for free to democratize STEAM education, establish mentorship, and inspire the next generation of K-12 students.
$1,350 spent1% of program spendingFAST: FAST pairs graduate student mentors with high minority enrollment high schools. Students answer open questions in science, and engineer solutions to problems in their society.
$56,098 spentof which $56,098 as grants49% of program spendingAdditional Program Service Accomplishments including grants to: CSU Center for Computing Education, and JANM (Japanese American National Museum) programs for local schools.
$6,654 spentof which $6,654 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $113,654.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $580k to $981k (+69%).
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.
59% of GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $194 → $3k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 GRANT IMAHARA STEAM 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
GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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
78% of GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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
GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION
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
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 GRANT IMAHARA STEAM 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 GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION?
- GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,532 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,332). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $24,532 in grants to GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,332 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION 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.
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