Kansas · Nonprofit
STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION
STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,000 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($600,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $625k
- Net assets
- $0
What Stemm Fire Foundation does
Mission
The STEMM FIRE Foundation is providing Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medical career exposure, educational guidance and support by connecting industry professionals to rural school districts and communities in an effort to ignite interest and empower rural youth, parents and educators.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
STEMM FIRE's (SF) primary program is rural school speaking with STEMM professionals. SF has reached 1996 students this past year in rural school districts across Kansas. SF has grown our volunteer speaker list to over 40 STEMM professionals ranging from Orthopedic Surgeons to Linemen, Nursing to Engineering, Agriculture specialists to Physicists - Each volunteering time out of their busy careers to speak to rural middle and high school students about their careers and offering mentorships and job shadowing. With a new partnership with Fort Hays State University, our organization continues to grow and impact more and more students and communities across rural Kansas. STEMM FIRE dissolved in 2024, and the net assets were transferred to Fort Hays State University Foundation.
$696,662 spentof which $696,662 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $696,662.
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.
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 $719k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Lindsay Schmidt
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $600k.
From the IRS filings of STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION’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
STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 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
STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION?
- STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,000 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($600,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $625,000 in grants to STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION?
- THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEMM FIRE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Stemm Fire →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing