Massachusetts · Nonprofit
READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC
READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,489 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($15,400). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Reading Engineering Teams Inc does
Mission
To provide a means of funding and financial support to the Reading Robockets (Team 4761), a FIRST Robotics Competition Team at Reading Memorial High School.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support Reading Memorial High School FRC Robotics Team in building competition robot and attending NE FIRST Competitions. Through outreach activities, the team inspires appreciation for STEM within the community.
$21,942 spent96% of program spendingScholarships for Reading Memorial High School students.
$900 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,842.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $45k to $56k (+25%).
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 READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $530 → $6k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC’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
READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
84% 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 READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 83% — 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
READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC has grown faster than half of the 28 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 28 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC
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 Massachusetts
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 READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC: 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 READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC?
- READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,489 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($15,400). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $18,489 in grants to READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC?
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is the largest funder on record, with $15,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READING ENGINEERING TEAMS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing