North Carolina · Nonprofit
PORT CITY ROBOTICS
PORT CITY ROBOTICS (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,470 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($29,164). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Port City Robotics does
Mission
We mentor young people (Grades K through 12) as they learn to design, build and program robots, which are then taken to regional and national competitions. This practical, collaborative, hands-on experience in science and technology has proven invaluable to our students, many of whom have chosen to pursue a college education centered around STEM.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
FIRST Robotics Competition team 4534 - PCR provides management, fundraising, and support for this team of 20 high school students in Wilmington NC. The bulk of these expenses relate to the requirements of managing the team including materials, registration fees, and travel.
$55,959 spentof which $56,657 as grants96% of program spendingFIRST Lego League team 38481 - This team is geared towards middle school students; 6 students this past year. Expenses were related to materials and registration fees. Working closely with this team was FIRST Lego League challenge team 57614 which had 4 students and FIRST Lego League Explore team 26095 which also had 4 students. These 3 teams work closely together.
$2,611 spentof which $1,322 as grants4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,570.
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 $25k to $18k (−27%).
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.
100% of PORT CITY ROBOTICS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $86 → $5k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PORT CITY 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
PORT CITY ROBOTICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 PORT CITY ROBOTICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of PORT CITY 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
PORT CITY ROBOTICS has grown faster than half of the 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PORT CITY 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORT CITY 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 PORT CITY ROBOTICS?
- PORT CITY ROBOTICS (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,470 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($29,164). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PORT CITY ROBOTICS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $29,470 in grants to PORT CITY ROBOTICS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORT CITY ROBOTICS?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $29,164 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORT CITY ROBOTICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2 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