Tennessee · Nonprofit
Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM
Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,660 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $485k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM does
Mission
oSTEM empowers LGBTQ people in STEM to succeed personally, academically, & professionally by cultivating environments & communities that nurture innovation, leadership & advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Annual Conference & Professional Development Summit The annual conference brings together students & professionals from across the country. The conference is the organization's premier event where we bring together students & professionals for career, leadership, professional development of all of our oSTEM members. The 2023 fall conference was attended by 1100 inviduals.
$700,425 spent$623,962 earned by the program82% of program spendingQueer in Artificial Intelligience (AI) conference workshops held at the Conference for Neural Information Processing Systems, which brings together LGBTQ-identifying AI scientists to talk about their identity and promote inclusive spaces in AI.
$29,546 spent3% of program spendingChapter & Individual Support The organization provides support to oSTEM chapters at universities and colleges across the country as well as individuals furthering their education. The funding is used to support he individual oSTEM chapters at each college/university to further the organization's mission at a local level. Individuals are supported with funds to offset application fees for graduation programs.
$124,311 spent$45,088 earned by the program15% of program spendingExpenses: $2632.00 including grants of: $0.00 Revenue: $0.00
$2,632 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $856,914.
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 2020 to 2021, from $589k to $1.0M (+70%).
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.
8% of Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Lilian Martinez
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $125 → $12k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM’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
Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 97% · 2022 58% · 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM'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 $201k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $283k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM?
- Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,660 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $484,660 in grants to Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Out in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Inc oSTEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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