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← THE HIGH DESERT MUSEUM

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by THE HIGH DESERT MUSEUM.

Totals

Total revenue
$12,190,842
Total expenses
$8,389,114
Contributions and grants received
$7,809,373
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$3,678,352
Investment income
$586,465
Other revenue
$116,652
Total assets, end of year
$41,482,289
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,148,260
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$40,334,029
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$7,083,347
Management and general expenses
$790,383
Fundraising expenses
$515,384
Program service expenses (Part III)
$7,083,347

Program services were 84.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • DANA WHITELAW PHD

    PRESIDENT, E

    Total calculated
    $158,914
    From this org
    $145,484
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,430
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,484
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,325
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,105
    Filer's total
    $158,914
  • KEVIN SMYTH

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $82,061
    From this org
    $77,348
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,713
    Hours/week
    50
  • NELSON E MATHEWS

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • KEVIN G PALMER

    FINANCE CHAI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • GARY K CUTLER

    GOVERNANCE C

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • SHARON GUECK

    DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CAMERON M KERR

    COLLECTION C

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • KATHERINE BLOOMFIELD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • TUCKER BOUNDS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ROBERT BRUNOE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CARSON G CAMPBELL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • KATHRYN C COLLINS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JN DEMPSEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ALI DIETZ

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • MARY FAULKNER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • RYAN J HAGEMANN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CAROLINE M HALL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • PETER J HALL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • MARGARET M HEATER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ANDREW N JORDAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CONNIE KEARNEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JULIE A MILLER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ROMY MORTENSEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JOSH NEWTON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • PETER C RICHTER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • STEVE L SHROPSHIRE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • SUSAN V SKALSKI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JUSTIN SNYDER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • PHYLLIS SWINDELLS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • THOMAS M TRIPLETT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • TERRY VALESKI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CHRISTINE VERNIER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • BILLY WILLIAMS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • RICHARD C WININGER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • MIKE HOLLERN

    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 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Independent compensation consultant
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 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
18 February 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202530529349301918

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