Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$3,969,572

Total expenses

$6,197,096

Contributions and grants received

$1,932,765

Grants paid

$580,699

Program service revenue

$1,813,535

Investment income

$129,433

Other revenue

$93,839

Total assets, end of year

$3,753,587

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,760,826

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,992,761

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$5,635,018

Management and general expenses

$562,078

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,635,018

Program services were 90.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• BUILD A MORE EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE - -PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT MEMBERS TO PREPARE AND LEAD WITH THEIR COMMUNITIES - BUILDS CAPACITY AMONG SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTERS AND MUSEUMS AND ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS FOR LEADING WITH THEIR COMMUNITIES ON CRITICAL ISSUES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. THROUGH LARGELY GRANT-SUPPORTED EFFORTS, ASTC DEVELOPS AND DEPLOYS PROGRAMS TO UNDERSTAND AND SCALE NEW APPROACHES TO PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENCE AND INFORMAL SCIENCE LEARNING AMONG OUR MEMBERS. ASTC ALSO INVESTS IN RESEARCH TO HELP OUR MEMBERS RECOGNIZE AND ACT ON MARKET AND SOCIETAL TRENDS AFFECTING THEIR BUSINESSES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES. -ADVANCE EQUITABLE ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - BRINGS TOGETHER INSTITUTIONS RICH IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH (STEM) THAT SERVE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES AROUND THE GLOBE, AND THAT RECOGNIZE THAT DIVERSITY, ACCESSIBILITY, INCLUSION, AND EQUITY ARE PARAMOUNT VALUES. INVESTS IN ACTION FOR THE FIELD IN SUPPORT OF THESE VALUES INCLUDING OUR DIVERSITY AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FELLOWS PROGRAM, COLLABORATIVE SUPPORT OF THE CULTURAL COMPETENCE LEARNING INSTITUTE, AND MULTIPLE PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN OUR FIELD AND IN STEM AROUND THE WORLD. HELPS ASTC MEMBERS THROUGH THESE EQUITY AND DIVERSITY PROGRAMS TO BECOME MORE WELCOMING, INCLUSIVE, AND ACCESSIBLE INSTITUTIONS, WITH AN AIM TO INCREASE THE DIVERSITY OF THOSE WHO VISIT AND WORK IN MUSEUMS; STEM; AND ENSURE THESE PLACE-BASED INSTITUTIONS REMAIN RELEVANT TO THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE AND SUPPORTIVE OF THE GOALS AND PRIORITIES OF THOSE COMMUNITIES.

  Expenses $1,727,197 · Grants $320,020

• STRENGHEN MEMBERS AND THEIR CAPACITY - -ASTCS ANNUAL CONFERENCE - HOSTS ONE OF THE PREMIER PROFESSIONAL-DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE GLOBAL SCIENCE-CENTER COMMUNITY, WHERE, EACH YEAR, 1,500 TO 2,000 INDIVIDUALS REPRESENTING SCIENCE CENTERS AND MUSEUMS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD, INFORMAL SCIENCE EDUCATORS, AND COMPANIES COLLABORATING WITH THE MUSEUM FIELD GATHER. OFFERS GENERAL SESSIONS, CONCURRENT SESSIONS, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS AT THIS ANNUAL CONVENING. -PUBLICATIONS AND COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE - KEEPS MEMBERS APPRISED OF TRENDS, PRACTICES, PERSPECTIVES, AND NEWS OF SIGNIFICANCE TO THE SCIENCE-MUSEUM FIELD THROUGH A DIGITAL MAGAZINE AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS. PROVIDES RESOURCES, TIMELY INFORMATION AND ONLINE COMMUNITIES AND FORUMS THAT PROMOTE THE SHARING OF SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES THROUGH ONLINE COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE. -WORKSHOPS, WEBINARS, AND OTHER CONVENINGS - PROVIDES LEARNING AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MUSEUM AND SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS ON A RANGE OF TOPICS. -RESEARCH SERVICES - TRACKS AND ANALYZES TRENDS AND COMPILES DATA, INFORMATION, AND STATISTICS FOR THE SCIENCE MUSEUM FIELD.

  Expenses $1,387,077 · Revenue $1,865,327

• CHAMPION AND SUPPORT SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT - -ADVOCACY AND PUBLIC RELATIONS - ADVANCES THE INTERESTS OF SCIENCE CENTERS, INFORMAL SCIENCE LEARNING, AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT BROADLY WITHIN THE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. ENCOURAGES MUSEUM VISITORSHIP THROUGH PUBLIC RELATIONS EFFORTS AND A RECIPROCAL FREE ADMISSION PROGRAM. -PUBLIC AWARENESS AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT - CONDUCTS OUTREACH TO NORTH AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, AND EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONS TO POSITION THE SCIENCE MUSEUM FIELD AS A POTENTIAL PARTNER FOR CONNECTING THE PUBLIC TO SCIENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO GLOBAL ISSUES. -COLLABORATING ACROSS THE SCIENCE-ENGAGEMENT ECOSYSTEM - SUPPORTS A GROWING NETWORK OF LEADERS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ENGAGEMENT NETWORKS TO FOSTER A MORE ROBUST ECOSYSTEM OF ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE ENGAGING THE PUBLIC IN STEM. -INTERNATIONAL NETWORK AND MEMBER COLLABORATIONS - WORKS WITH NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SCIENCE CENTER NETWORKS OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES TO SUPPORT SCIENCE CENTERS AND MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE.

  Expenses $943,534 · Revenue $42,047

• CAISE - THE CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INFORMAL SCIENCE EDUCATION (CAISE) IS A NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION-FUNDED PROJECT TO BUILD AND ADVANCE THE INFORMAL STEM EDUCATION FIELD BY PROVIDING INFRASTRUCTURE, RESOURCES AND CONNECTIVITY FOR EDUCATORS, RESEARCHERS, EVALUATORS AND OTHER INTERESTED STAKEHOLDERS.

  Expenses $898,614 · Grants $30,670

• COMMUNITIES FOR IMMUNITY - COMMUNITIES FOR IMMUNITY IS AN INITIATIVE SUPPORTING THE WORK OF MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES IN ENGAGING THEIR COMMUNITIES IN COVID-19 VACCINE CONFIDENCE. ADMINISTERED BY ASTC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF MUSEUMS AND THE NETWORK OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE, AND WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES AND THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, COMMUNITIES FOR IMMUNITY SUPPLIED FUNDING TO MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES DURING IN 2021-2022 TO SUPPORT VACCINE CONFIDENCE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.

  Expenses $565,626 · Grants $132,009

• LEGACY PROJECTS -LEGACY PROJECTS REPRESENT MULTI-YEAR FUNDED PROJECTS THAT ASTC DOES NOT ANTICIPATE CONTINUING. WHILE THESE PROJECTS ADVANCE ASTC'S MISSION AND SUPPORT OUR WORK WITH OUR MEMBERS, THEY MAY NOT FALL INTO ONE OF ASTC'S NEW STRATEGIC PILLARS.

  Expenses $112,970 · Grants $98,000

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

  $30,670

  CAISE GRANT

• SCIENCENTER

  $23,375

  DIALOGUE AND DELIBERATION CHALLENGE GRANT, UNIVERSE OF LEARNING MINIFUND

• ASSOCIATION OF TRIBAL ARCHIVES LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS

  $20,000

  COMMUNITIES FOR IMMUNITY VACCINE CONFIDENCE PROGRAM GRANT AWARD

• LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION

  $19,000

  DIALOGUE AND DELIBERATION CHALLENGE GRANT

• SOUTH DAKOTA DISCOVERY CENTER

  $17,610

  UNIVERSE OF LEARNING MINIFUND, IF/THEN GENDER EQUITY GRANT AWARD

• GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC TA TELLUS SCIENCE MUSEUM

  $17,000

  VOYA STEM GRANT

• LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER

  $17,000

  VOYA STEM GRANT

• EXPLORA OF ALBUQUERQUE

  $15,000

  UNIVERSE OF LEARNING MINIFUND

• MUSKOGEE STEAM CENTER

  $15,000

  UNIVERSE OF LEARNING MINIFUND

• ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER

  $13,610

  IF/THEN GENDER EQUITY GRANT AWARD, VOYA STEM GRANT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

14 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202323189349312942

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