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READING SCIENCE CENTER

EIN 82-5063856 READING, PA

Revenue 2025
$724,740
Expenses 2025
$574,770

Program services were 71.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A57
Classification
2800
Street
PO BOX 7573

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 READING SCIENCE CENTER EXISTS TO FOSTER A LOVE OF SCIENCE THROUGH EXCITING AND EXPERIENTIAL STEM EDUCATION FOR THE GREATER READING COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY OUR YOUTH.

Activities or mission (Part I)

READING SCIENCE CENTER AIMS TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING HANDS ON SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCES FOR THE COMMUNITY, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES.

  • READING SCIENCE CENTER IS A SAFE AND VIBRANT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR FAMILIES AND STUDENTS FROM BERKS COUNTY AND BEYOND. THE CENTER HOUSES OVER 50 HANDS-ON EXHIBITS ENCOURAGING CHILDREN TO DISCOVER THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE AT THEIR OWN PACE. ADDITIONALLY, FIELD TRIPS FOR SCHOOLS ARE HOSTED PROVIDING SCIENCE EXPLORATION THROUGH THEIR INTERACTIVE STATIONS AND EXHIBITS AS WELL AN HOUR LONG SCIENCE INVESTIGATION LED BY EDUCATORS ON TOPICS SUCH AS PH, ELECTRIC CIRCUITS, STATES OF MATTER, TOOLS OF A SCIENTIST, THE SCIENCE OF GLOW, BIOME HABITATS, VISCOSITY, ETC. STUDENTS LEARN THE VOCABULARY OF SCIENCE, AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. THEY EACH PERFORM THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION AND TAKE HOME ELEMENTS OF THE LESSON FOR FURTHER INQUIRY. ALL LESSONS ARE ALIGNED WITH PENNSYLVANIA STATE SCIENCE CURRICULUM STANDARDS.IN ADDITION TO THEIR IN-HOUSE PROGRAMMING, READING SCIENCE CENTER TRAVELS TO READING SCHOOL DISTRICT CLASSROOMS FOR SUMMER PROGRAMMING, AS WELL AS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMING DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR. THE CENTER PRODUCES THEIR OWN SIGNATURE SISTERS IN STEM AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR GIRLS IN GRADES FOUR THROUGH SIX DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE AND EMPOWER THESE FUTURE INNOVATORS TO PURSUE CAREERS IN STEM.THE CENTER ALSO HOSTS THEIR OWN ANNUAL COMMUNITY SCIENCE CELEBRATION CALLED CELEBRATE SCIENCE DAY". THIS EVENT BRINGS TOGETHER SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FROM A VARIETY OF INSTITUTIONS AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS TO SHOW THE APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE IN SPACE, HEALTH, SAFETY, GEOLOGY, ANIMALS, PLANTS, ELECTRICITY AND MORE. THE EVENT IS OFFERED FREE TO THE PUBLIC.

    Expenses $412,726 · Revenue $112,998

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.

  • RICH STUMP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • AMY VAUGHAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JIM ARENTZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • BRIAN J BUERKE PHD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • SUSAN FULTZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JAMES CINELLI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MICHAEL DEPAUL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JASON RUSH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MARCELLO PETACCI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JAMES KARLINSEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DAVID SOLIVAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • NEHA MAJMUDAR MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • KIM HIPPERT-EVERSGERD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • TAMI MYSLIWIEC

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • SCOTT SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • SANDY GRAFFIUS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • TIMOTHY ROMIG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JAMES CINELLI

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CORINNE WILSON

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES HAWS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NATHAN PEIFFER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $724,740
    Expenses
    $574,770
    Contributions
    $576,873
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $479,881
    Expenses
    $426,160
    Contributions
    $374,618
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $291,453
    Expenses
    $367,860
    Contributions
    $192,298
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $283,212
    Expenses
    $320,053
    Contributions
    $214,529
    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
    $319,174
    Expenses
    $218,256
    Assets (EOY)
    $316,851

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $229,457
    Expenses
    $97,809
    Assets (EOY)
    $217,002

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $98,977
    Expenses
    $14,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,284

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
James Cinelli
Mailing address
608 Museum RoadReading PA 19611

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

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