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DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC

EIN 36-3292135 ROCKFORD, IL

Revenue 2025
$2,697,179
Expenses 2025
$2,645,886

Program services were 78.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A520
Classification
1000
Street
711 N MAIN STREET

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR JOYFUL LEARNING AND DISCOVERY THROUGH HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES IN THE SCIENCES AND ARTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR JOYFUL LEARNING AND DISCOVERY THROUGH HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES IN SCIENCES AND ARTS.

  • DURING 2025, THE DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM HOSTED 129,082 VISITORS AND SERVED ANOTHER 28,618 THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, 18,573 THROUGH FIELD TRIPS TO THE MUSEUM, AND 13,992 THROUGH OUTREACH PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $2,085,185 · Revenue $997,009

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Lana Paris

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $125,000
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jim Diverde

    PAST PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Charo Chaney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Heidi Dettman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Michael Dunn Jr

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Michael Pura

    1ST VICE PRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Brenten Witherby

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Nicole Carter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mike Stubbe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Brian Webb

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Alexis Conniff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Maryjo Reynolds

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Griselda Durand

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Joel Foss

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Julie Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Terrell Yarbrough

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Thomas Weightman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Edward Santos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jim Schmitt

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jennifer Dunlap

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Alen McVeigh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Nicole Morig

    2ND VICE PRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Michael Rathbun

    DIR. OF FACI

    Total calculated
    $119,883
    From this org
    $112,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,483
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,697,179
    Expenses
    $2,645,886
    Contributions
    $1,560,150
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,732,614
    Expenses
    $3,987,276
    Contributions
    $3,767,120
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,974,736
    Expenses
    $1,936,303
    Contributions
    $2,841,377
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,952,857
    Expenses
    $1,751,863
    Contributions
    $1,005,717
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,144,571
    Expenses
    $1,575,570
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,899,428
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,321,945
    Expenses
    $1,483,941
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,110,978
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,160,877
    Expenses
    $1,919,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,306,592
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,848,640
    Expenses
    $1,883,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,940,154
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,841,116
    Expenses
    $1,719,637
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,040,215
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,907,628
    Expenses
    $1,687,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,898,107
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,697,068
    Expenses
    $1,611,192
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,676,316
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,829,563
    Expenses
    $1,618,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,604,908
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,720,351
    Expenses
    $1,703,810
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,388,177
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,812,949
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,325,412

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 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 13 October 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 registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.