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MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC

EIN 32-0268455 PACIFIC GROVE, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,998,630
Expenses 2024
$1,629,374

Program services were 61.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A50
Classification
2000
Street
165 FOREST AVE

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 · 2024

Mission

The Museum inspires wonder, discovery, and stewardship of our natural world. The Museum is a catalyst for conservation and a valued learning resource, facilitating active scientific and historical inquiry for all ages.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Museum Foundation operates the Museum of Natural History, founded in 1883 and housing over 45,000 artifacts. The Museum serves as a hub for scientific and historical learning for over 40,000 people each year through exhibitions, education programs, and community events.

  • Education: The The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History's Education programs include free school field trips, free Science Saturdays (offered 9 times per year) and hands-on community science opportunities for all ages. Outdoor science education includes LiMPETS (Long Term Monitoring Program and Experimental Training for Students) and Watershed Explorers, which offers watershed education field trips. This year the Museum offered several all ages field sketching workshops and continued middle school and teen programs. Over 10,000 students participate in the Museum's programs each year.

    Expenses $706,749 · Revenue $69,039

  • Exhibitions: Since its beginning in 1883, the Museum has excelled at teaching the public about the natural world through a variety of exhibitions displaying monarch butterflies, local birds and wildlife, geology, and cultural artifacts to name a few. This fiscal year the museum hosted several temporary exhibits including "From the Real to the Unreal," "Illustrating Nature," "Invasive Attempts, and Beyond illustrating Nature artist every quarter, as well as installed a new permanent exhibition, "Jade Beneath the Sea." Starting in January 2025, the Museum renovatred several of its galleries space.

    Expenses $290,847 · Revenue $62,676

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Rachel Miller

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $121,102
    From this org
    $121,102
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Richard Dole

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jazmine Munos Meijas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joan Clay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Denecour

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John O'Sullivan

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Megan Sulsberger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Olivia Duarte

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ken Wysocki

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alan Arvin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sean Powell

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexis Bunten

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Walan Chang

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ben Bence

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Cuenco

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tama Oliver

    Director

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,998,630
    Expenses
    $1,629,374
    Contributions
    $1,643,947
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,526,935
    Expenses
    $1,606,324
    Contributions
    $1,183,329
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,487,426
    Expenses
    $1,569,129
    Contributions
    $1,241,633
    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
    $1,582,322
    Expenses
    $1,288,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,465,215

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,286,000
    Expenses
    $1,044,628
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,514,959

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,739,690
    Expenses
    $1,032,621
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,988,122

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,140,589
    Expenses
    $958,968
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,189,774

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $893,799
    Expenses
    $947,652
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,041,594

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $825,538
    Expenses
    $965,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,057,471

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,076,598
    Expenses
    $1,031,451
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,112,304

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,767,591
    Expenses
    $758,439
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,081,834

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $927,347
    Expenses
    $708,242
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,079,795

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $673,677
    Assets (EOY)
    $791,984

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period
1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009
Principal officer
Jason Burnett
Mailing address
165 Forest AvePacific Grove CA 93950

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.