Habitot Childrens Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943191605
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5106471111
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,081
- Expenses
- $160,703
- Assets
- $407,938
- Liabilities
- $7,249
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Veronica Ortega (President)
People named in this filing
- Veronica Ortega (President)
- Patrick Phillips (Treasurer)
- Annie Coe (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Habitots mission is to provide art and play-based experiences for young children that are safe, appropriate and enriching that help them learn and grow and to support parents and caregivers in raising curious, creative and confident children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Habitot's Mobile Museum - With over 50 events since 2021, the Mobile Museum Tour continued in 2025 with eight events in five East Bay cities, in both outdoor and indoor locations. Hands-on exhibits like the Waterworks water discovery experience, Magnetic Ball Run, Rocket Launcher, and Giant Blue Building Blocks demonstrated the engagement of children in learning through play. Maker stations for rocket building and boat building fostered imagination, invention, design, and testing in the exhibits. Sensory and art-making stations supported early childhood development as well as creativity. All events encouraged parent engagement and parent-child bonding. Events were free for EBT card families and offered on a sliding scale of $1-40 for others to make events broadly accessible. Locations were selected to reach underserved families. Twelve hundred participants attended these events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 60.4%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.54; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.8% of revenue deployed · 60.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.