Mississippi · Nonprofit
STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS
STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,450 to it, the largest being POSEIDON SCHOOL ($38,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $15k
What STEM Advancement Inc Dba Mississippi Robotics does
Mission
Teaching disadvantaged children in rural mississippi stem (science, technology, engineering, math) through robotics. The outreach includes sponsoring one statewide competition, providing stem camps, and teacher training.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Teaching upwards of over 415 disadvantaged children in rural mississippi stem (science, technology, engineering, math) through robotics. The organization works through established ministries and schools. In addition the organization sponsors one statewide competition, stem camps for children, and teacher training.
$109,348 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,348.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $45k to $16k (−65%).
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.
74% of STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $550 → $39k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI 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
STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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.
Where its funders are
STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $750 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
STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS has grown faster than half of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$40k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
43%
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 STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI 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 STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS?
- STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,450 to it, the largest being POSEIDON SCHOOL ($38,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $69,450 in grants to STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS?
- POSEIDON SCHOOL is the largest funder on record, with $38,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEM ADVANCEMENT INC DBA MISSISSIPPI ROBOTICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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