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MUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO

EIN 84-0588068 GRAND JCT, CO

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Revenue 2024
$1,264,074
Expenses 2024
$1,459,628

Program services were 82.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A540
Classification
2000
Street
462 UTE 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 OF WESTERN COLORADO IS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION THAT COLLECTS, PRESERVES, AND INTERPRETS ARTIFACTS, SPECIMENS, AND INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CULTURAL AND NATURAL HISTORY OF WESTERN COLORADO AND THE CONTIGUOUS AREA. WE ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE PUBLIC WE SERVE THROUGH RESEARCH, PROGRAMS, AND EXHIBITS TO PROMOTE AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND PRESERVATION OF THE PAST AND PRESENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO IS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION THAT COLLECTS, PRESERVES, AND INTERPRETS ARTIFACTS, SPECIMENS, AND INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CULTURAL AND NATURAL HISTORY OF WESTERN COLORADO AND THE CONTIGUOUS AREA. WE ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE PUBLIC WE SERVE THROUGH RESEARCH, PROGRAMS, AND EXHIBITS TO PROMOTE AWARNESS, UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND PRESERVATION OF THE PAST AND PRESENT.

  • EXHIBITS - EXHIBITS AND EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MUSEUM OF THE WEST, CROSS ORCHARD AND DINOSAUR JOURNEY. ALL EXHIBITS ARE OF A HISTORICAL NATURE AND COMPLIMENT THE MUSEUM'S GOAL OF PROMOTING AND PRESERVING THE HISTORY OF WESTERN COLORADO FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO PRESENT.

    Expenses $682,704 · Revenue $222,312

  • CURATORIAL - THE SELECTION, STUDY AND PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS. THIS COVERS THE STUDY AND PROMOTION OF THE HISTORY OF WESTERN COLORADO FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO PRESENT. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE DESIGN AND DIRECTION OF THE MUSEUM AND ITS EXHIBITS.

    Expenses $310,079 · Revenue $100,972

  • EDUCATIONAL - THESE PROGRAMS PROMOTE THE EDUCATION ASPECTS ASSOCIATED WITH OUR CORE PROGRAMS AT MUSEUM OF THE WEST, CROSS ORCHARD AND DINOSAUR JOURNEY. THE GOAL OF THESE PROGRAMS IS TO EDUCATE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES ON THE HISTORY OF WESTERN COLORADO FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO PRESENT. THE MUSEUM'S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS COMPLIMENT OUR CURATORIAL AND EXHIBIT PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $213,212 · Revenue $69,429

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Shenna Hayden

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $58,469
    From this org
    $58,469
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Brady Blackmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Barb Bowman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bryan Carei

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jj Fletcher

    MESA CNTY RE

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Edward Gardner

    EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Kathy Hall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christina Harney

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Erika Jackson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cody Kennedy

    CITY OF GJ R

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kristy Lindquist

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tom Oliver

    PAST PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rebecca Petersen

    SECETERY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Scroggins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrea Stolarczyk

    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
    $1,264,074
    Expenses
    $1,459,628
    Contributions
    $560,515
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,100,354
    Expenses
    $1,238,929
    Contributions
    $509,177
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,369,589
    Expenses
    $1,056,221
    Contributions
    $737,210
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,916,272
    Expenses
    $1,037,927
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,482,954
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $947,814
    Expenses
    $1,135,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,702,983
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,347,524
    Expenses
    $1,546,744
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,536,377
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,423,533
    Expenses
    $1,531,099
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,693,282
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,501,645
    Expenses
    $1,454,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,866,095

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.