MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

EIN 76-0217152 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024: $61,190,428
Expenses 2024: $45,269,425

Program services were 78.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: S300
Classification: 1000
Street: 1601 NASA PKWY

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 MISSION OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC. IS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE SPACE PROGRAM WITH SPACE CENTER HOUSTON AS THE CORNERSTONE OF ITS EFFORTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC. IS TO OPERATE SPACE CENTER HOUSTON, A VISITORS CENTER DEVOTED TO INCREASED PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT BY REVEALING HOW SCIENCE AND HUMANITY POWER SPACE EXPLORATION.

MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION OPERATES SPACE CENTER HOUSTON, A VISITORS' CENTER DEVOTED TO INCREASING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT BY PROVIDING ARTIFACTS, EXHIBITS, TOURS OF NASA, AND LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS. VISITORS APPROXIMATE 1,000,000 ANNUALLY. IN ADDITION, THE FOUNDATION BENEFITS FROM VOLUNTEER EFFORTS, WHICH HAVE TOTALED 18,000 HOURS AND HAVE BEEN VALUED AT $612,000. THE MISSION OF SPACE CENTER HOUSTON, THE GATEWAY TO JOHNSON SPACE CENTER AND THE ASTRONAUTS, IS TO BE A WORLD-CLASS ATTRACTION DEDICATED TO INSPIRING, ENTERTAINING AND EDUCATING EVERY GENERATION ABOUT SPACE EXPLORATION, THE MISSION OF NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND THE BENEFITS OF SPACE EXPLORATION TO HUMANKIND.

Expenses $35,398,016 · Revenue $41,288,602

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.

Peggy KostialPEGGY KOSTIAL

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Raamel MitchellRAAMEL MITCHELL

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ivan RodriguezIVAN RODRIGUEZ

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jacob AveryJACOB AVERY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michael BloomfieldMICHAEL BLOOMFIELD

CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Bob CavnarBOB CAVNAR

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Daniel CohenDANIEL COHEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Deborah ConderDEBORAH CONDER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Pat CunninghamPAT CUNNINGHAM

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Tj CreamerTJ CREAMER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Richard FilipRICHARD FILIP

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michael EdmondsMICHAEL EDMONDS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Fred GriffinFRED GRIFFIN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Gwen GriffinGWEN GRIFFIN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Dhaval JadavDHAVAL JADAV

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Lara KearneyLARA KEARNEY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Joy KellyJOY KELLY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Harvin MooreHARVIN MOORE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Stewart Morris JrSTEWART MORRIS JR

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Alice Mary MosingALICE MARY MOSING

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
John MulhollandJOHN MULHOLLAND

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Stephanie MurphySTEPHANIE MURPHY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Mary MurrayMARY MURRAY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Adam SchneiderADAM SCHNEIDER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kirk ShiremanKIRK SHIREMAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1

The first 25 listed. 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

$61,190,428

Expenses

$45,269,425

Contributions

$3,366,921

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$61,802,214

Expenses

$38,362,001

Contributions

$7,767,336

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$46,331,097

Expenses

$32,964,383

Contributions

$5,981,977

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$61,190,428	$45,269,425	$3,366,921	$0
2023	$61,802,214	$38,362,001	$7,767,336	$0
2022	$46,331,097	$32,964,383	$5,981,977	$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

$45,013,359

Expenses

$26,188,082

Assets (EOY)

$76,743,192
2021 · 990

Revenue

$45,013,359

Expenses

$26,188,082

Assets (EOY)

$76,743,192
2020 · 990

Revenue

$17,328,223

Expenses

$24,484,539

Assets (EOY)

$62,014,493
2020 · 990

Revenue

$17,328,223

Expenses

$24,484,539

Assets (EOY)

$62,014,493
2019 · 990

Revenue

$46,244,218

Expenses

$31,158,801

Assets (EOY)

$71,933,794
2018 · 990

Revenue

$37,421,348

Expenses

$25,889,290

Assets (EOY)

$60,713,573
2017 · 990

Revenue

$37,971,737

Expenses

$27,912,311

Assets (EOY)

$53,852,394
2016 · 990

Revenue

$31,345,357

Expenses

$22,270,430

Assets (EOY)

$45,614,726
2015 · 990

Revenue

$26,175,371

Expenses

$20,090,852

Assets (EOY)

$38,927,610
2014 · 990

Revenue

$23,776,494

Expenses

$19,936,573

Assets (EOY)

$33,308,694

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$45,013,359	$26,188,082	$76,743,192
2021	990	$45,013,359	$26,188,082	$76,743,192
2020	990	$17,328,223	$24,484,539	$62,014,493
2020	990	$17,328,223	$24,484,539	$62,014,493
2019	990	$46,244,218	$31,158,801	$71,933,794
2018	990	$37,421,348	$25,889,290	$60,713,573
2017	990	$37,971,737	$27,912,311	$53,852,394
2016	990	$31,345,357	$22,270,430	$45,614,726
2015	990	$26,175,371	$20,090,852	$38,927,610
2014	990	$23,776,494	$19,936,573	$33,308,694

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

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$226,805

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$212,195

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND

$200,000

2024 GRANTS
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$52,965

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$29,500

2022 ARTS
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION

$20,000

2024 ARTS AND HUMANITIES
ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF TEXAS

$14,000

2025 Support of Space Center Houston and the Conrad Challenge, Teacher of the Year award
GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

$12,000

2024 MEDICAL / PUBLIC SERVICES
ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY CENTERS INCORPORATED

$11,000

2024 VOYA STEM GRANT
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

$10,500

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.