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CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT

EIN 36-3611426 MINNETONKA, MN

Revenue 2025
$4,815,572
Expenses 2025
$4,387,778

Program services were 88.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O99Z
Classification
2000
Street
12600 WHITEWATER DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • John Hinderaker

    President

    Total calculated
    $201,544
    From this org
    $163,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,544
    Hours/week
    50 + 5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $38,544
    Filer's total
    $201,544

  • Ron Eibensteiner

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 1 related

  • Molly Cronin

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Scott Rile

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ed Anderson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elam Baer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nataly Baig

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Barry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bob Breckner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mitch Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jerry Dettinger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Barbara Dovolis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Greg Frandsen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ben Golnik

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sharon Hawkins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Hayden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lowell Hellervik

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robin Kelleher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Russell King

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Kroll

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Kukuljan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeremy LaBeau

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carol Lanners Hockert

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ken Morris

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Dankey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,815,572
    Expenses
    $4,387,778
    Contributions
    $4,775,356
    Grants paid
    $50,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,313,337
    Expenses
    $4,150,088
    Contributions
    $4,073,430
    Grants paid
    $109,900
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,661,132
    Expenses
    $4,871,382
    Contributions
    $4,458,700
    Grants paid
    $695,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,399,952
    Expenses
    $5,005,753
    Contributions
    $3,290,333
    Grants paid
    $858,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.