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← MINNESOTA CHILDRENS MUSEUM

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by MINNESOTA CHILDRENS MUSEUM.

Totals

Total revenue
$9,746,635
Total expenses
$9,722,004
Contributions and grants received
$3,462,526
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$5,586,810
Investment income
$637,095
Other revenue
$60,204
Total assets, end of year
$42,256,977
Total liabilities, end of year
$3,113,499
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$39,143,478
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$7,677,124
Management and general expenses
$1,421,495
Fundraising expenses
$623,385
Program service expenses (Part III)
$7,677,124

Program services were 79.0% 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.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $348,290

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $1,226,878

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,887,358

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $784,652

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Museum Admissions

    total $2,089,245 · related or exempt $2,089,245

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Memberships

    total $1,617,653 · related or exempt $1,617,653

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Exhibit Rentals and Sales

    total $1,392,468 · related or exempt $1,392,468

  • 2d · Program service revenue: Education & Groups

    total $166,997 · related or exempt $166,997

  • 2e · Program service revenue: Parties & Events Revenue

    total $57,742 · related or exempt $57,742

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $262,705 · related or exempt $262,705

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $465,536 · excluded $465,536

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $126,242 · excluded $126,242

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $14,157

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $14,157

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $14,157 · excluded $14,157

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $4,966,946

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $4,795,387

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $171,559

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $171,559 · excluded $171,559

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $24,470

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $348,290

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $104,665

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$80,195 · excluded -$80,195

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $414,804 · program services $67,241 · management and general $280,322 · fundraising $67,241

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $38,834 · program services $38,834

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $4,228,005 · program services $3,440,893 · management and general $437,286 · fundraising $349,826

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $67,029 · program services $57,505 · management and general $4,341 · fundraising $5,183

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $387,488 · program services $342,832 · management and general $13,374 · fundraising $31,282

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $347,716 · program services $270,505 · management and general $46,790 · fundraising $30,421

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $11,472 · program services $8,110 · management and general $3,094 · fundraising $268

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $49,645 · program services $6,300 · management and general $43,345

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $40,148 · management and general $40,148

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $50,536 · management and general $50,536

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $262,732 · program services $214,969 · management and general $33,457 · fundraising $14,306

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $299,335 · program services $263,978 · management and general $30,637 · fundraising $4,720

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $193,014 · program services $167,091 · management and general $4,194 · fundraising $21,729

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $94,817 · program services $64,529 · management and general $29,784 · fundraising $504

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $737,510 · program services $602,278 · management and general $119,743 · fundraising $15,489

  • 17 · Travel

    total $93,044 · program services $92,216 · management and general $736 · fundraising $92

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $66,320 · program services $34,476 · management and general $9,994 · fundraising $21,850

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,708,249 · program services $1,587,369 · management and general $120,880

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $106,561 · program services $350 · management and general $106,211

  • 24a · Other expenses: Supplies

    total $305,646 · program services $255,308 · management and general $4,441 · fundraising $45,897

  • 24b · Other expenses: Fees/Permits/License

    total $216,526 · program services $162,340 · management and general $42,109 · fundraising $12,077

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $2,573 · management and general $73 · fundraising $2,500

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $191,478 · end of year $7,100

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $4,150,276 · end of year $2,380,916

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $1,260,261 · end of year $641,181

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $98,331 · end of year $110,961

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $123,712 · end of year $109,551

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $45,734,080

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $20,540,488

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $25,504,944 · end of year $25,193,592

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $10,078,394 · end of year $13,812,502

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $1,174

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $855,674 · end of year $863,172

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $1,958,222 · end of year $2,133,074

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $115,955 · end of year $115,955

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $1,298

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $33,412,824 · end of year $34,086,745

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $5,064,721 · end of year $5,056,733

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. The museum helps to instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the real-world skills children need to become engaged citizens in the future.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Sparking children's learning through play

  • At the Minnesota Children's Museum (the Museum), the mission is sparking children's learning through play. The Museum's vision for the community is: Kids play more. Adults do, too. All families thrive as a happier, healthier, and more innovative community through the radiant power of play. The Museum features kid-powered play spaces where families have fun together and children take the lead. Through interactive exhibits and programs, the Museum provides open-ended, self-directed experiences that give kids and adults the space and freedom to explore their interests, solve problems and build life skills like confidence, critical and creative thinking, communication and more. Program service statement continue: The Museum in St. Paul features 10 permanent exhibits including a four-story climber with spiral slide, laser maze, car wash, ball launchers, maker space, pretend town, and a gallery for toddlers and pre-schoolers. There's also a traveling exhibits gallery that features a new experience every few months. Play is powerful and universal. It's an innate impulse in kids that helps them thrive and grow into healthy, happy adults. Yet, pressures on play like screen time, adult-led academic activities, safety worries and busy family schedules continue to decrease the amount of time kids spend playing. Through play, kids learn how to learn, build relationships with others, and develop life skills that set them up for future success. Equally important, when kids play, they have fun, which leads to joy and happiness. Play is not frivolous, it's essential. That's why we work to inspire more play by providing resources for parents to support their child's playful learning. Minnesota Children's Museum believes play is powerful and universal, uniting people across cultures, backgrounds and beliefs. All families are welcome and encouraged to experience the power of play at the museum. Our All Play program provides discounted tickets and membership to income-qualified families, helping make the museum accessible to everyone.

    Expenses $6,469,057 · Revenue $4,194,342

  • Traveling Exhibit Production & Design: The Museum is the leading producer of traveling exhibits for the children's museum industry, reaching hundreds of thousands of individuals annually. The Museum's current portfolio consists of 12 active exhibits, which are rented to children's museums, science museums, and other family-serving entities across North America. The Museum's traveling exhibit program leverages the Museum's core strength of producing engaging exhibits that foster children's learning. Traveling exhibit production and design includes exhibit maintenance for active exhibits on tour throughout North America, along with the design and production of new exhibits to build the Museum's portfolio of traveling exhibits.

    Expenses $1,208,067 · Revenue $1,392,468

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Drew Zinkel

    Chair of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Suzette Huovinen

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Matt Brown

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Kate McRoberts

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Adrian Chiu

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Andrea Jaffee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Andrea Piepho

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Bryan Holloway

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Benjamin Ollendick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Carmen Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Chris Kelley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Clayton O'Toole

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Cody Warren

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • David Benedict

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Debra Bauler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Derek Naill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Dexter Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Elisa Rasmussen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Elizabeth Cummings

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Elizabeth Rominski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Frank Bedo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Grady Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Jeanne Junker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Jennifer Bratton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Jim Mancini

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • John Henningsgard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Julie Joyce

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Katie Milliken

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Ken Hanley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Kimberlee Sinclair

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Larriss Maldonado

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Marcus Ploeger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Mark Hubler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Michael Fiddelke

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Nicole Garrison

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Sara Swenson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Scott Peterson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Stephen Friend

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Su Ryeon Kang

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Tricia Brackeen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Will Brady

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Dianne Krizan

    President

    Total calculated
    $264,685
    From this org
    $233,353
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,332
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $201,853
    Bonus
    $31,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,272
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,313
    Filer's total
    $264,938

  • Fola Tiamiyu

    Dir of Finance & Technolog

    Total calculated
    $143,289
    From this org
    $108,484
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,805
    Hours/week
    40

  • Robert Ingrassia

    VP of External Relations

    Total calculated
    $151,671
    From this org
    $145,584
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,087
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,584
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,407
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,933
    Filer's total
    $151,924

  • Briana Geurink

    VP of Philanthropy

    Total calculated
    $139,951
    From this org
    $133,029
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,922
    Hours/week
    40

  • Allison Gredesky

    Director of Talent Resources

    Total calculated
    $116,300
    From this org
    $102,415
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,885
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joseph Olson

    VP of Museum Experience

    Total calculated
    $175,073
    From this org
    $162,291
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,782
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,291
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,250
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,786
    Filer's total
    $175,327

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 · 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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
11 March 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202540729349301359

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