California · Nonprofit
VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS
VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being AEROJET ROCKETDYNE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Vocational Steam Works does
Mission
Vocational & stem-steam skill sets
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Taft school rocket program:created on campus launch site that inluded science of model rocketry & vocational skills for 20 teachers and 300 students.
$4,327 spent22% of program spendingAmerican rocket challenge (arc):hosts model rocket launches.anticipating over 200 students in upcoming event, sponsering two teams.
$10,820 spent55% of program spendingFair and air show: booths shows ran by students as an outreach to a minimum of 500 up to 2,000 younger students.
$4,525 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,672.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $1k to $4k (+345%).
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 VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
John Pacente
Director-CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS’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.
Where its funders are
VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS: 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 VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS?
- VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being AEROJET ROCKETDYNE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS.
- Who is the largest funder of VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS?
- AEROJET ROCKETDYNE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOCATIONAL STEAM WORKS 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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