Mid-columbia Childrens Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923161244
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Richland, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5097885964
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,365
- Expenses
- $161,401
- Assets
- $52,449
- Liabilities
- $11,063
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHELSEA BLAIR (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- BETH CROCKER (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHELSEA BLAIR (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- BETH CROCKER (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHANNON WAKEMAN (BOARD 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To bring a STEM/STEAM centered children's museum to the Tri-Cities, WA community. Our intention is to cultivate a generation of engaged and curious critical thinkers who are empowered to create a better future for themselves and their communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mobile childrens museum participating in community events / more than 24 events during fiscal year serving approximately 12,000 community members
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.5%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 1
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: -74.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -84.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -34% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -71.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.5% of revenue deployed · 1.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.