Totals
- Total revenue
- $3,279,183
- Total expenses
- $3,317,459
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,928,539
- Grants paid
- $104,000
- Program service revenue
- $1,158,576
- Investment income
- $207,899
- Other revenue
- -$15,831
- Total assets, end of year
- $8,453,586
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $340,461
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $8,113,125
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,571,708
- Management and general expenses
- $409,378
- Fundraising expenses
- $336,373
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,571,708
Program services were 77.5% 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.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
-
1e · Government grants (contributions)
$341,741
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,586,798
-
2a · Program service revenue: ADMISSIONS
total $1,155,211 · related or exempt $1,155,211
-
2b · Program service revenue: EDUCATION CLASSES
total $3,315 · related or exempt $3,315
-
2c · Program service revenue: PROGRAM EVENTS
total $50 · related or exempt $50
-
3 · Investment income
total $170,512 · excluded $170,512
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $38,125 · related or exempt $38,125
-
6a · Gross rents
real property $15,000
-
6b · Less rental expenses
real property $109,364
-
6c · Rental income or loss
real property -$94,364
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total -$94,364 · unrelated business -$94,364
-
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $37,387
-
7c · Gain or loss
securities $37,387
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $37,387 · related or exempt $37,387
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10a · Gross sales of inventory
$7,736
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $7,736 · excluded $7,736
-
11a · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME
total $32,672 · related or exempt $32,672
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$32,672
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $104,000 · program services $104,000
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $464,339 · program services $259,090 · management and general $176,711 · fundraising $28,538
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,372,744 · program services $1,138,723 · fundraising $234,021
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $201,094 · program services $152,429 · management and general $20,512 · fundraising $28,153
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $152,752 · program services $115,786 · management and general $15,581 · fundraising $21,385
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $0
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $17,184 · management and general $17,184
-
11g · Fees: other
total $346,407 · program services $256,662 · management and general $80,695 · fundraising $9,050
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $89,945 · program services $22,556 · management and general $65,396 · fundraising $1,993
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $0
-
17 · Travel
total $0
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $53,708 · program services $34,859 · management and general $18,849
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $119,402 · program services $114,626 · management and general $2,388 · fundraising $2,388
-
23 · Insurance
total $0
-
24a · Other expenses: FACILITIES MAINTENANCE
total $292,613 · program services $283,200 · fundraising $9,413
-
24b · Other expenses: FEES & OTHER CHARGES
total $39,769 · program services $38,576 · fundraising $1,193
-
24c · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS
total $28,353 · program services $25,924 · management and general $2,429
-
24d · Other expenses: EXHIBIT & EVENT COSTS
total $21,628 · program services $21,628
-
24e · All other expenses
total $13,521 · program services $3,649 · management and general $9,633 · fundraising $239
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $339,908 · end of year $258,317
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $943,795 · end of year $703,616
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $39,526 · end of year $325,637
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $3,820 · end of year $3,334
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$3,904,985
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$2,844,596
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $1,151,598 · end of year $1,060,389
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $5,468,922 · end of year $6,102,293
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $261,332 · end of year $329,211
-
19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $2,650 · end of year $11,250
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $6,816,817 · end of year $6,752,632
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $866,770 · end of year $1,360,493
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
The San Diego Museum of Man, dba Museum of Us, sits on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Kumeyaay Nation, in San Diegos Balboa Park. The Museum of Us extends its respect and gratitude to the Kumeyaay peoples who have lived here for millennia. The Museum was founded in 1915, as part of the citys Panama-California Exposition. On August 2, 2020, the Museum announced its change of name to Museum of Us. This new name is a registered Doing Business As until a full legal change is executed. At its founding, the Museum was the epitome of an early 20th century institution of its kind; a place defined by its ethnographic collections and their traditional western European academic display. In January 2012, the Board of Directors adopted a three-year strategic plan that identified a new mission: Inspiring human connections by exploring the human experience. The institutional goal for the Museum is to be San Diegos dynamic place to go to learn from each other, reflect on our place in the world
Activities or mission (Part I)
INSPIRING HUMAN CONNECTIONS BY EXPLORING THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
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Our 2020 name change represents a commitment to equity, access, and our decolonizing/anti-racism work a journey that has been ongoing since our mission shift and will continue into the future. This change means holding ourselves accountable to our colonial past and present, so that we can transform into a more equitable organization. We must do better for our community and future generations. Our organizational practices, policies, and culture are changing to reflect the requests and needs of our internal and external communities. These shifts result from the guidance of our partners: elders, artists, community members, ambassadors, and scholars within Black, Indigenous, and communities of color.When we reopened in 2021, after the pandemic closure, we did so with a five-day-a-week schedule, and welcomed approximately 100K visitors annually. Starting on July 15th 2024, we returned to daily openings and are now also opened for monthly San Diego Resident Free Tuesdays (on the 4th Tuesday). Almost 20% of FY24 admissions were free of charge or through scholarships. Our audience identifies as: (1) Average age 35.5, (2) Woman 69.4%, (3) Man 26.3%, (4) Other Gender/prefer not to answer 4.3%, (5) White/Caucasian 64.4%, (6) African American 3.9%, (7) Hispanic/Latino 20.5%, (8) Asian 9.4%, and (9) Other, including Native American 1.8%. Our virtual audience includes over 9K Instagram followers, over 25K Facebook followers, over 5.5K Twitter/X followers, and over 3.6K LinkedIn followers. Presently, the Museum has an extremely large membership base with 10K currently enrolled. The Museums current exhibits include Hostile Terrain 94, PostSecret, Living With Animals, BEERology, Cannibals: Myth & Reality, Maya Peoples: Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth, Kumeyaay: Native Californians/Iipai-Tipai, Ancient Egypt, Race: Are We So Different, and California Tower tours. These exhibits, and complementary public programs, encourage visitors to challenge their assumptions, and world views.In November 2025, the Museum will open a new, reimagined Race exhibit titled, Race: Power, Resistance & Change; the culmination of a multi-year community led exhibit development effort that explores the complex layers of local racial history and the ongoing struggles for equality through moments of resistance and change.The Museums Department of Cultural Resources is tasked with caring for more than 150,000 documented ethnographic materials, more than 500,000 archaeological cultural resources, and over 100,000 photographic images; and, for stewarding them within a decolonized paradigm. To that end, the Museum passed policies in 2017 and 2018 that require documented consent from descendant communities to hold human remains or any Indigenous belongings at the Museum. These policies commit the Museum to repatriating any Indigenous item for which the Museum does not have such consent. Since 2017, weve been working with our Kumeyaay partners in meaningful ways to incorporate community voice in broad-based decisions about cultural resources, exhibits, and programs. Similar efforts are now ongoing with other local/national Native American communities and Indigenous communities world-wide. The Museum holds accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums and is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. In March 2024, for the second year in a row, the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced that the Museum was a finalist for the National Medal for Museums and Libraries, the nations highest honor for museums and libraries who have shown exceptional service to their communities.
Expenses $2,571,708 · Grants $104,000 · Revenue $1,266,760
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Micah D Parzen PhD JDMICAH D PARZEN PHD JD
CEO
- Total calculated
- $272,354
- From this org
- $258,533
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,821
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $258,533
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $13,821
- Filer's total
- $272,354
-
Erin SpiewakERIN SPIEWAK
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $190,529
- From this org
- $186,460
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,069
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $186,460
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $4,069
- Filer's total
- $190,529
-
Lester Haddan
SR DR DEV & EXTERN
- Total calculated
- $109,674
- From this org
- $103,702
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $5,972
- Hours/week
- 40
-
George A RamirezGEORGE A RAMIREZ
ENGAGE OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rockwell ShahROCKWELL SHAH
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Darrell JacksonDARRELL JACKSON
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Elif GokcigdemELIF GOKCIGDEM
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Myra Masiel-ZamoraMYRA MASIEL-ZAMORA
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mariano DiazMARIANO DIAZ
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sandra TimmonsSANDRA TIMMONS
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Zaneta EncarnacionZANETA ENCARNACION
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ricky ShabazzRICKY SHABAZZ
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Scott GrimesSCOTT GRIMES
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Nora JaffeNORA JAFFE
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Theresa AmboTHERESA AMBO
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Eva TrujilloEVA TRUJILLO
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ellen WaddellELLEN WADDELL
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Megan ThomasMEGAN THOMAS
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Marnie CheneyMARNIE CHENEY
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kurt ChilcottKURT CHILCOTT
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Shannon BartlettSHANNON BARTLETT
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sarah GoltzSARAH GOLTZ
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ileana OvalleILEANA OVALLE
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Yandro ValdezYANDRO VALDEZ
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Yuriko AntonYURIKO ANTON
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
Answered yes
- 3 · Independent compensation consultant
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
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
-
$54,000
Border Wall meetings
-
$50,000
De-Colonial work
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 6 February 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202510379349301691
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