Valley Children's Museum

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943340530
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2020
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Dublin, CA, USA
Phone
9258287188
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Museum, Museum Activities

Reported finances

Revenue
$144
Expenses
$46,092
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WENDY FUKAMAKI (PRESIDENT)
  • ED DUARTE (PAST PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • WENDY FUKAMAKI (PRESIDENT)
  • RICH HALKET (TREASURER)
  • VARSHA NENE (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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The valley children's museum provides opportunities for educational play for children, families and school groups through fun, interactive exhibits and programs. The museum stimulates curiosity, creativity, imagination, and learning through exploration of the natural world, the sciences, the arts, and social role-playing.

What it reported doing in 2020

Planning and executing plan for use of vcm's mobile museum for weekly hands-on activity from may through october in conjunction with dublin's farmer's market at dublin's emerald glen park. Varying activities are offered for children weekly, themed around food, history, water and native american culture. The organization offers hands on play based craft programs on the second saturday of each month. The mobile museum is offered as a 4th grade field trip destination for tri-valley schools which highlights the California mission study education program. Continuing to build board leadership and organizational capacity, and increasing visibility in the community and on the website, seeking support and partnership for planned facility at dublin's hacienda crossroads site in the future.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 55% for direct work, and 45% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - 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: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -31,908.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2020
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.