Children's Museum of Jacksonville
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300436154
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Jacksonville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9106502769
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $444,436
- Expenses
- $518,892
- Assets
- $739,095
- Liabilities
- $121,510
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAIME DORN (PRESIDENT)
- SAMANTHA PLOCICA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SAMANTHA PLOCICA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $65,539 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule othe children's museum of jacksonville is a hands-on, interactive museum for families and children. It is a special place where they can play, imagine, create, explore, and learn. The specific objectives of this organization are:(a) to provide a safe and clean facility for families and children to interact in jacksonville, nc;(b) to sponsor, host, and/or participate in events and activities that promote a hands-on, interactive learning environment for children and their families;(c) to be a place where education can continue outside the classroom and bridge learning from public, private, and homeschool curricula.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided a safe, clean, family-friendly environment for children and parents to continue the learning process outside the classroom through play, exploration, creativity, and interaction with others.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 67% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 71.9%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 71.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $373K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.