California · Nonprofit
Young STEAMers
Young STEAMers (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,707 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($21,688). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $223k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $185k
What Young STEAMers does
Mission
Young STEAMers provides hands-on steam education, career exploration, and mentorship to underserved youth, closing opportunity gaps and creating pathways to educational and economic success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Young STEAMers offers free, year-round programs that spark interest in steam and open pathways to stem careers for low-income children & youth. 1) steam classes engage k8 students in hands-on core sciences, engineering, physics, & tech enrichment. Instructors and aides are also role models that inspire and empower. 2)at family events, parents gain tools to support their childrens education and career exploration. 3)career compass events introduce youth to real-world stem careers and connect students with professionals through monthly virtual panels. 4) our employment model builds a community-driven pipeline of college instructors & high school aides who gain experience, skills, & network. In 2025, we taught 2,694 students, delivered 440 lessons at 26 sites, & trained 22 instructors.
$75,940 spent$220,778 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $75,940.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $58k to $187k (+222%).
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: 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Orna Kretchmer PhD
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 Young STEAMers’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
Young STEAMers leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 Young STEAMers.
“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
71% of Young STEAMers'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like Young STEAMers
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Young STEAMers: 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 Young STEAMers?
- Young STEAMers (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,707 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($21,688). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Young STEAMers have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $58,707 in grants to Young STEAMers, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Young STEAMers?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Young STEAMers 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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