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MINNESOTA CHILDRENS MUSEUM

EIN 41-1354181 SAINT PAUL, MN

Revenue 2024
$11,839,767
Expenses 2024
$10,328,698

Program services were 79.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A520
Classification
1200
Street
10 7TH ST W

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

Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. The museum helps to instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the real-world skills children need to become engaged citizens in the future.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Sparking children's learning through play

  • Experience and Outreach: Minnesota Children's Museum sparks children's learning through play. The museum features play spaces where families have fun together and children take the lead. Through interactive exhibits and programs, the museum provides open-ended, self-directed experiences that give kids (and adults) the space and freedom to explore their interests, solve problems and build life skills like confidence, critical and creative thinking, communication and more. The museum in St. Paul features 11 experience spaces, including a four-story climber with spiral slide, laser maze, car wash, ball launchers, maker space, pretend town, and a gallery for toddlers and preschoolers. (Statement continued on Schedule O)Play is powerful and universal. It's an innate impulse in kids that helps them thrive and grow into healthy, happy adults. Through play, kids learn how to learn, build relationships with others, and develop life skills that set them up for future success. Equally important, when kids play, they have fun, which leads to joy and happiness. Play is not frivolous, it's essential. That's why we work to inspire more play by providing resources for parents to support their child's playful learning.All families are welcome and encouraged to experience the power of play at the museum. Our All Play program provides free or discounted tickets and membership to income-qualified families, helping make the museum accessible to everyone.

    Expenses $7,166,839 · Revenue $3,965,273

  • Traveling Exhibit Production & Design: Includes exhibit maintenance for active exhibits on tour throughout North America, along with the design and production of new exhibits to build the museum's portfolio of traveling exhibits.

    Expenses $1,008,372 · Revenue $1,468,054

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.

  • Drew Zinkel

    Chair of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Suzette Huovinen

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Matt Brown

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Kate McRoberts

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Adrian Chiu

    Chair Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Adrienne Todd

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Andrea Jaffee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Andrea Piepho

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Bonita Lucky

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Bryan Hollaway

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Benjamin Ollendick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Clarise Tushie-Lessard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Clayton O'Toole

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Cody Warren

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • David Benedict

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Debra Bauler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Derek Naill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Dexter Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Elisa Rasmussen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Elizabeth Cummings

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Gada Simeso

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Grady Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Harlee Wood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Jessica Erlichmann

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Jim Mancini

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

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
    $11,839,767
    Expenses
    $10,328,698
    Contributions
    $5,741,431
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,746,635
    Expenses
    $9,722,004
    Contributions
    $3,462,526
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,787,249
    Expenses
    $15,309,157
    Contributions
    $4,607,099
    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
    $10,384,942
    Expenses
    $7,407,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,748,657

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,138,691
    Expenses
    $6,685,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,452,988

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,692,042
    Expenses
    $8,773,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,109,214

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,340,189
    Expenses
    $9,263,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,618,030

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,274,014
    Expenses
    $9,321,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,818,679

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,987,145
    Expenses
    $6,646,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,654,695

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,459,818
    Expenses
    $7,270,773
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,463,368

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,514,748
    Expenses
    $7,553,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,626,970

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,738,872
    Expenses
    $8,035,639
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,052,526

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $7,361,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,717,519

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2022 return

  • MCM Holdings

    501(c)(3) · Support Minnesota Children's Museum · MN · controlled entity

Declared as related by

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.