California · Nonprofit
ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS
ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,362 to it, the largest being LOUIS & MARY KAY SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Rock-It Science Educationally Useful Programs does
Mission
Teach science to children
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Summer Camps, Homeschool and Afterschool Classes: 6227 student hours
$118,936 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $118,936.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $31k to $53k (+72%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $4k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS’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
ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 60% · 2022 97% · 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
ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS
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 California
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 ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS: 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 ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS?
- ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,362 to it, the largest being LOUIS & MARY KAY SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $38,362 in grants to ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS?
- LOUIS & MARY KAY SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), 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