Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINI ROBOTICS
ILLINI ROBOTICS (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,664 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($149,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $163k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Illini Robotics does
Mission
To Promote STEM in the Champaign Urbana metro area and in neighboring communities and states
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Fund Ctrl Z Boosters; a parent membered group to support FRC team 4096 - about 80 members
$0 spentof which $28,871 as grantsFund FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team 4096, a high school membered team of 45 students
$0 spentof which $17,922 as grantsFund Illini Robotics FIRST LEGO League reg qualifer, state tournament and FTC tournament held in Champaign IL which allows teams to compete in competitions. The regional events host 25-30 teams and the state competition hosts 50 teams with a total of 1250 students attending the events.
$0 spentof which $101 as grantsFund FIRST Tech Challenge team Ctrl-Y -- 14 high school members (last year to support them)
$0 spentof which $10,655 as grantsFund FRC team 5125 - about 25 students
$0 spentof which $25,614 as grants
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $47k to $20k (−57%).
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 ILLINI ROBOTICS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $27k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ILLINI 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
ILLINI ROBOTICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ILLINI ROBOTICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 84% · 2022 99% · 2023 77% — 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
ILLINI ROBOTICS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
ILLINI ROBOTICS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 479 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ILLINI 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 ILLINI ROBOTICS: 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 ILLINI ROBOTICS?
- ILLINI ROBOTICS (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,664 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($149,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINI ROBOTICS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $162,664 in grants to ILLINI ROBOTICS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINI ROBOTICS?
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is the largest funder on record, with $149,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINI ROBOTICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), 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