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THE SCIENCE VORTEX OF VERDE VALLEY

EIN 84-4106067 CORNVILLE, AZ

Revenue 2025
$137,595
Expenses 2025
$123,094

Program services were 82.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
725 S CEDAR RIDGE CT

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

Primary exempt purpose

The Science Vortex provides STEM+art (STEAM) education to families. Our mission is to positively impact children's critical-thinking abilities, creativity, and STEM literacy. Our center is committed to achieving these goals by providing hands-on, interactive exhibits, enticing learning materials, and engaging programs for children ages 2-12. We strive to create an environment where children are drawn into a vortex of play, perseverance, collaboration, and innovation!

  • Field Trip Program: In 2025, 3,134 students participated in 92 field trip visits to the Science Vortex, engaging in hands-on STEAM learning. Students attended from Cottonwood, Camp Verde, Cornville, Clarkdale, Sedona, and Beaver Creek schools.

    Expenses $31,000

  • Summer Camp Program: In 2025, 296 children attended STEAM summer camps held in May, June, and July. Camp themes included Coding Explorers, EcoExplorers, Future Innovators, Junior Extreme STEAM, Minecraft Masters, and a Winter Break camp.

    Expenses $25,000

  • Free Early Learning & Family Programs: In 2025, 1,144 participants attended Little Learners STEAM Time and Makerspace Family Night programs. Both programs are offered weekly and are free to the public.

    Expenses $8,960

  • Weekend Public Access: The Science Vortex is open to the public every Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 1 PM. In 2025, 773 visitors attended weekend public hours.

    Expenses $11,280

  • School-Based STEAM Instruction: In 2025, the Science Vortex delivered 77 STEAM lessons in PreK-8 classrooms, reaching 818 students.

    Expenses $4,250

  • Community Outreach Program: In 2025, the Science Vortex conducted community outreach through 14 events, reaching at least 613 participants. Events included library programs, school visits, after-school clubs, and community festivals such as the Verde Valley SciTech Festival and City of Sedona STEAM sessions.

    Expenses $2,000

  • Chief Science Officers Program: In 2025, the Science Vortex supported 18 middle and high school students as STEM ambassadors, expanding service into Camp Verde and the broader Verde Valley community.

    Expenses $3,000

  • School STEAM Clubs: In 2025, 30 STEAM club sessions were conducted with elementary students in Cottonwood, Cornville, Sedona, and Camp Verde.

    Expenses $2,000

  • Verde Valley SciTech Festival: In 2025, the Science Vortex led the annual regional SciTech Festival, engaging 1,774 participants, including over 250 attendees at the kickoff event.

    Expenses $5,400

  • STEAM Mobile / Camp Verde STEAM Initiative: In 2025, the Science Vortex completed this initiative, expanding access to STEAM education for youth ages 1-17 across the Verde Valley.

    Expenses $8,037

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Laurie Altringer

    President Treasurer- Employee- Director- Lead Instructor

    Total calculated
    $54,040
    Compensation
    $54,040
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    40

  • Viviane Kraus

    Secretary Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Scheidegger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donald Groves

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $137,595
    Expenses
    $123,094
    Contributions
    $72,583
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $170,582
    Expenses
    $146,621
    Contributions
    $91,087
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $100,841
    Expenses
    $74,775
    Contributions
    $48,388
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $78,245
    Expenses
    $75,669
    Contributions
    $23,844
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $96,136
    Expenses
    $74,869
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,224

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Lauren Altringer
Mailing address
725 South Cedar Ridge CourtCornville AZ 86325
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

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