Temple Childrens Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822153214
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Temple, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2547606808
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $309,409
- Expenses
- $309,609
- Assets
- $833,318
- Liabilities
- $416
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN BATTERSHELL (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JAKE UTLEY (PRESIDENT)
- JOSHUA SHOKRAEIFARD (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBIN BATTERSHELL (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JAKE UTLEY (PRESIDENT)
- BOBBIE KETTLES (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to create a community which sparks the creativity and curiosity of young children through hands on learning and interactive play.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization owns a building which will be renovated to provide a permanent location for hands on "steam" based exhibits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.8%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -0.1%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.69; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.8% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $296K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.