Team Support Organizations by State

[The other Gabe]

from what I know, the PNW has a lot of school-based teams

[Alex2614]

As far as I know, 0 of the WV teams (all 4 of them) are based out of one school. MARS and PARTs are the two largest teams, both of which are community teams that have students from multiple high schools.

I know MARS is a 501c3 non-profit. I do not know the specifics of the other three in WV.

[Mr V]

Just because a team shows up as having their own not for profit orginzation does not mean they are not a single school team, a team based on a school district or don't meet on school property. Many teams form their own non for profit to ensure quicker turn around time to approve parts purchases and to be able to carry a balance forward until the next school year. I know a number of school districts that have a policy that a school account can not carry a significant or sometimes any balance forward.

In the case of WA The Other Gabe is correct that the vast majority of teams are based out of a single school with a handful being district wide teams, a handful of 4H teams and several at private schools.

[GeeTwo]

I don't know about all of the teams in Louisiana, but all the ones I can think of are associated with a public or private high school (or in the case of 1912, two public schools located about five miles by road from each other). I've always wondered how teams can manage school absences if they're not associated with a school or a home school group; five non-field-trip absences in a semester will result in a high school student failing in Louisiana public schools.

3946 also has "Slidell Tiger Robotics Booster Club, Inc.", which is a state-chartered 501 (c) (3) which handles a significant portion of the funding for the team, and is designed after the "Band Booster" model; I understand that this is not the usual case here. Due to policies of the sponsors and the school board, some of our money must go through the school account, but we pass as much as we can through STRBC as the processes to spend and manage the money are much simpler. For sponsorship recognition purposes, we consider gifts to the STRBC as equivalent to gifts to our school account.