California · Nonprofit
SARATOGA MSET INC
SARATOGA MSET INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,199 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($316,184). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $337k
- Net assets
- $292k
What Saratoga Mset Inc does
Mission
Inspire interest in science, technology, engineering, and math STEM to pursue education and career opportunity by engaging students to design, build, program, and operate robots through competitions. Provide environment to develop principles and practice skills in STEM, while realizing the value of hard work, innovation, and working as a team.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
MSET Mechanical Science and Engineering Team provides learning and training program in science, technology, engineering, and math STEM in teamwork format. Guided by adult coaches and mentors, 95 high school students with 13 student leaders, were offered to each participant student, more than 100 hours of 1 robot building experience and robot challenges competitions at local, regional, state and world tournaments, 2 the value of hard work, team support and technology innovation. Outreach activities to demonstrate robot building and task performance were provided to local schools and communities to inspire the interest in STEM for younger students.
$94,541 spentof which $9,070 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $94,541.
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 2021 to 2022, from $80k to $159k (+99%).
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 SARATOGA MSET INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $32k → $83k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 SARATOGA MSET 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
SARATOGA MSET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
98% 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 SARATOGA MSET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 42% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
94% of SARATOGA MSET INC'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 $21k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $316k 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
SARATOGA MSET INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 625 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like SARATOGA MSET 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SARATOGA MSET 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 SARATOGA MSET INC?
- SARATOGA MSET INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,199 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($316,184). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SARATOGA MSET INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $337,199 in grants to SARATOGA MSET INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARATOGA MSET INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $316,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARATOGA MSET INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 7 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