The Walt Disney Family Museum

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
464118590
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4153456800
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
History Museums

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,502,304
Expenses
$12,836,015
Assets
$46,338,727
Liabilities
$48,713,778

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WALTER MILLER (PRESIDENT)
  • TAMARA MILLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KIRSTEN KOMOROSKE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • KIRSTEN KOMOROSKE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $437,033 total reported compensation
  • RICHARD STONE (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $176,943 total reported compensation
  • MARINA VILLAR-DELGADO (DIR OF EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS): $171,098 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The walt disney family museum presents an inspirational journey though the life of walter elias disney. Our mission is two-fold: to inform present and future generations about the man and, through his story, to inspire them to heed their imagination and persevere in pursuing their goals. To execute this mission, the organization provides related educational, outreach, and public programming.

What it reported doing in 2024

Educational programs are designed to amplify the museum's mission. They earn national recognition for effective delivery of steam (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) curriculum and for promoting creativity and hands-on skill building. In 2024, 4,710 school children and 2,310 chaperones toured the museum and participated in correlated studio experiences. Our educators also taught students virtually throughout the year and led virtual field trips to the museum, hosting 1,451 students and 50 chaperones in online visits by the end of 2024. Educators taught 6,732 children offsite at partner schools over the course of the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school year. This included teaching our animation certificate program, local residents of east palo alto, California at the epacenter art facility, and students in our distance learning program in New Hampshire from new hampton school. Educators also provided in-house art classes and workshops for all ages, and summer classes for youth between the ages of 8 and 20. In addition, 1,670 students/guests, 5 years and up, attended studio classes related to art and animation and participated in summer classes, studio series, pop up studios, after school animation, animation intensives, drawing workshops, open studio sessions, industry paths sessions, and animation labs. An additional 504 students also participated in virtual classes and workshops.

Operating model

Revenue model
Affiliate-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 95
  • Accountability: 89
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 70.5%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $56.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.61; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.05; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 70.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $437K · 17 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.