Museum of Arts & Sciences

Legal name: The Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art Science & History Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
591022050
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Daytona Beach, FL, US
Phone
(386) 255-0285
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Museum, Museum Activities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,560,135
Expenses
$5,874,794
Assets
$284,895,703
Liabilities
$246,059

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TODD HUFFSTICKLER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • TABITHA SCHMIDT (EXECUTIVE DI): $206,493 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Museum of Arts & Sciences is a 501(c)(3) and all donations are tax deductible.

What it reported doing in 2025

The museum of arts and sciences, inc. Maintains and operates a facility in daytona beach, fl. The museum collections and research include cuban and Florida art, american fine and decorative arts, european paintings, pre- columbian and african artifacts, pleistocene fossils and regional natural history. Permanent and changing exhibits, lectures and classes highlight educational programs. One of those educational programs is the summer learning institute. The summer learning institute is a program that focuses on art, science and history, with many integrated learning experiences for our students. All classes are taught by degreed professionals with many years of teaching experience. It provides interactive and engaging experiences for each of its students. The museum houses changing art and science exhibition galleries, permanent collection galleries, a gallery of african art, paintings, decorative arts and furniture, a history of Florida wing, a cuban fine and folk arts museum, a planetarium, library, the frischer sculpture garden, the root wing, and maintains nature trails in a 60 acre reserve in adjacent tuscawilla park.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 35
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 91
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 10%; rating input score 10
  • Program expense ratio: 66.1%; rating input score 66
  • Fundraising efficiency: $61.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 88.6%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 48.49; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 10% of revenue deployed · 66.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $206K · 23 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $515K reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 10/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.