- 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Shenna HaydenSHENNA HAYDEN
EXECUTIVE DI
- Total calculated
- $58,469
- From this org
- $58,469
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Brady BlackmerBRADY BLACKMER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Barb BowmanBARB BOWMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Bryan CareiBRYAN CAREI
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jj FletcherJJ FLETCHER
MESA CNTY RE
- Total calculated
- $0
-
Edward GardnerEDWARD GARDNER
EMERITUS
- Total calculated
- $0
-
Kathy HallKATHY HALL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Christina HarneyCHRISTINA HARNEY
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Erika JacksonERIKA JACKSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Cody KennedyCODY KENNEDY
CITY OF GJ R
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kristy LindquistKRISTY LINDQUIST
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tom OliverTOM OLIVER
PAST PRESIDE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rebecca PetersenREBECCA PETERSEN
SECETERY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Steve ScrogginsSTEVE SCROGGINS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Andrea StolarczykANDREA 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
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2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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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
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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
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2024 TRAVELING EXHIBIT
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$5,404
2024 GENERAL PURPOSE
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.