Washington · Nonprofit
XBOT Robotics
XBOT Robotics (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $518,444 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($342,783). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $315k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $518k
- Net assets
- $211k
What XBOT Robotics does
Mission
Mission: Inspire and prepare underserved students to pursue STEAM learning and careers through mentored robotics competitions and hands-on projects. Activities: Extracurricular robotics activities for underserved students in South Seattle, WA.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
FIRST Robotics Comp. (FRC): 31 high school students, primarily from South Seattle, WA, worked with professional engineer mentors to design, build, program and compete with a 120 lb. robot. Advanced to First World Championship.
$183,361 spentof which $90,100 as grants73% of program spendingSTEAM Workshops: 74 students from South Seattle, WA worked with professional engineer mentors to learn programming (primarily Java), CAD, and electrical concepts geared towards robotics but applicable in other areas as well.
$45,122 spentof which $26,755 as grants18% of program spendingFirst Tech Challenge (FTC): 18 high school students on two teams from two South Seattle high schools designed, built and programmed small robots to compete.
$21,978 spentof which $3,920 as grants9% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Miscellaneous
$2,173 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $252,634.
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 2020 to 2021, from $136k to $286k (+111%).
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: 2022 13% · 2023 17% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of XBOT Robotics’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. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $0 → $89k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 XBOT Robotics’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. 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
XBOT Robotics leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 XBOT Robotics.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 52% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 83% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of XBOT Robotics's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of XBOT Robotics'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 $132k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $386k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
XBOT Robotics has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like XBOT 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 XBOT 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 XBOT Robotics?
- XBOT Robotics (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $518,444 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($342,783). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does XBOT Robotics have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $518,444 in grants to XBOT Robotics, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of XBOT Robotics?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $342,783 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like XBOT Robotics find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 12 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