Michigan · Nonprofit
GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS
GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,824 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($12,852). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Gull Lake Area Robotics does
Mission
1. To challenge the minds of students in the greater Gull Lake area, to learn and appreciate the fields of science, technology, engineering, and business through the participation with the FIRST programs at all levels.2. To serve our community by offering opportunities for students and community members to engage in real life problem solving activities.3. To inspire students to thrive in a highly competitive time sensitive environment.4. To learn communication and cooperation skills with the team as well as the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To educate students in ninth through twelve grade in First Robotics Competition robotics. We educate students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math through hands on learning. The total number of students that benefited from this program was 34 students.
$61,123 spent63% of program spendingTo educate students in sixth through eighth grade in First Tech Challenge robotics. We educated students in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math through hands on learning. The total number of students that benefited from this program was 33 students.
$13,981 spent14% of program spendingTo educate students in third through fifth grade in First Lego League Challenge robotics. We educated students in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math through hands on learning. The total number of students that benefited from this program was 54 students.
$15,399 spent16% of program spendingTo educate students in Kindergarten through second grade in First Lego League Explore Robotics. We educated students in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math through hands on learning. The total number of students that benefited from this program was 36 students.
$5,698 spent6% of program spendingTo educate students in Young 5's through Kindergarten in First Lego League Discover Robotics. We educated students in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math through hands on learning. The total number of students that benefited from this program was 13 students.
$1,142 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,343.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $109k to $119k (+9%).
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.
98% of GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $229.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS’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
GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 62% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.
Against its field
GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS has grown faster than half of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS?
- GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,824 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($12,852). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $26,824 in grants to GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,852 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GULL LAKE AREA ROBOTICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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