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MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM

EIN 20-2129318 HOT SPRINGS, AR

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Revenue 2025
$2,137,107
Expenses 2025
$2,893,243

Program services were 75.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A56
Classification
1000
Street
500 MID AMERICA BLVD

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM IS TO STIMULATE INTEREST IN SCIENCE, TO PROMOTE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE SCIENCES, AND TO ENCOURAGE LIFE-LONG SCIENCE EDUCATION THROUGH INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS AND PROGRAMS. THE MUSEUM ACCOMPLISHES THIS MISSION THROUGH A NEWLY RENOVATED FACILITY WITH OVER 90 HANDS-ON EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITS, A DIGITAL DOME THEATER, AN OUTDOOR SCIENCE SKYWALK AND THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL CONICAL TESLA COIL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM IS TO STIMULATE INTEREST IN SCIENCE, TO PROMOTE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE SCIENCES, AND TO ENCOURAGE LIFE-LONG SCIENCE EDUCATION THROUGH INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS AND PROGRAMS.

  • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING IS GERMANE TO THE MISSION OF MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM. SINCE 2015, THE MUSEUM HAS SERVED NEARLY 100,000 K-8 STUDENTS THROUGH ON-SITE HANDS-ON CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS INCLUDING TOPICS SUCH AS ROBOTICS, ENGINEERING, BIOLOGY, AND ASTRONOMY. AN ADDITIONAL 1500 STUDENTS ARE SERVED EACH YEAR THROUGH OUT-OF-SCHOOL PROGRAMMING SUCH AS SCIENCE AFTER SCHOOL, AFTER-SCHOOL OUTREACH, AND SCIENCE KITS DELIVERED TO SCHOOLS. YOUNG LEARNERS AGES 2-5 ARE ENGAGED IN SCIENCE AND LITERACY EDUCATION IN THE SCIENTOTS PROGRAM AND THE KYE YAC CLUBHOUSE EXHIBIT. FAMILY LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT IS ENCOURAGED DURING ANNUAL EVENTS SUCH AS TESLA FEST, CELEBRATING THE INVENTIONS OF NIKOLA TESLA, AND TINKERFEST, PROMOTING HANDS-ON EXPLORATION AND INVENTION.

    Expenses $2,170,714

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Diane Lafollette

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $184,222
    From this org
    $178,464
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,758
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,240
    Bonus
    $16,224
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,824
    Nontaxable benefits
    $934
    Filer's total
    $184,222

  • Brent Atkins

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Beau Britton

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ethan Erwin DDS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mandy Golleher

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jonathan Hamner

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Ho

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rafael Martinez

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mechele McNary

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carla Mouton

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Justin Nicklas

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Parth Patel

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tiffany Rogers

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Susanne Steed

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Paul Swepston

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Wolstenholme

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $2,137,107
    Expenses
    $2,893,243
    Contributions
    $480,119
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,064,517
    Expenses
    $2,537,102
    Contributions
    $565,661
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,551,332
    Expenses
    $2,483,827
    Contributions
    $1,017,688
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,853,152
    Expenses
    $2,275,695
    Contributions
    $351,860
    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
    $2,940,977
    Expenses
    $1,961,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,690,669

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,940,977
    Expenses
    $1,961,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,690,669

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $779,031
    Expenses
    $1,964,764
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,881,858

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $779,031
    Expenses
    $1,964,764
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,881,858

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,782,469
    Expenses
    $1,979,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,941,130

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,416,500
    Expenses
    $2,023,168
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,820,189

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,777,468
    Expenses
    $1,947,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,700,997

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.

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.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.