CURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM

EIN 38-2816471 SAINT JOSEPH, MI

Revenue 2025: $1,689,723
Expenses 2025: $841,976

Program services were 76.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A520
Classification: 2000
Street: 415 LAKE BLVD

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

Mission

THE CURIOUS KIDS' MUSEUM ENCOURAGES DISCOVERY, WONDER AND AWE FOR CHILDREN. THIS INTERACTIVE, HANDS-ON PLAYGROUND FOR THE MIND FULFILLS ITS EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ROLE BY STIMULATING CURIOSITY, AWARENESS AND LIFE PREPAREDNESS IN SCIENCE, CULTURE, HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY. THROUGH ITS PROGRAMS AND EXHIBITS, THE MUSEUM ENCOURAGES PEOPLE OF ALL AGES TO EXPLORE THE WORLD AROUND THEM IN A UNIQUE AND OPEN-ENDED MANNER.

A HANDS-ON AND LEARNING MUSEUM.

Expenses $643,297 · Revenue $269,506

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

HEIDI PETERS

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
TARAH MCLEOD

VICE-PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
PHIL HOSBEIN

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
CLAUDIA VESCOLANI

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
AMY NOLAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ANJA BITZER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BILL DOWNEY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DR SHARON DESKINS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JORDAN FETTIG

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JUDY GAWLIK

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
KELLY ROCHE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LAURIE LIEBERMAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LISA WELCH

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MADELINE BOND

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARIA KIBLER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARIA MOEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARIE BEAUFILS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MIKE THIENEMAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
NATE HARRINGTON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SUSAN LATHAM PHD

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JENNI CARTWRIGHT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CARRIE VILL

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LORI MARCINIAK

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$132,920

From this org

$132,920

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$132,920

Bonus

$0

Other

$0

Deferred

$0

Nontaxable benefits

$0

Filer's total

$132,920

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2025

Revenue

$1,689,723

Expenses

$841,976

Contributions

$1,388,477

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$1,140,881

Expenses

$768,957

Contributions

$744,534

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$1,528,407

Expenses

$659,130

Contributions

$1,198,146

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$1,308,766

Expenses

$623,204

Contributions

$679,490

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$1,689,723	$841,976	$1,388,477	$0
2024	$1,140,881	$768,957	$744,534	$0
2023	$1,528,407	$659,130	$1,198,146	$0
2022	$1,308,766	$623,204	$679,490	$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

2025 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
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

$678,110

Expenses

$524,590

Assets (EOY)

$2,701,731
2021 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2020 · 990

Revenue

$419,681

Expenses

$503,168

Assets (EOY)

$2,354,843
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$756,988

Expenses

$706,013

Assets (EOY)

$2,327,787
2018 · 990

Revenue

$654,144

Expenses

$777,614

Assets (EOY)

$2,086,029

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2025	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2024	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2023	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2022	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2021	990	$678,110	$524,590	$2,701,731
2021	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2020	990	$419,681	$503,168	$2,354,843
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$756,988	$706,013	$2,327,787
2018	990	$654,144	$777,614	$2,086,029

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

BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$578,337

2025 GENERAL SUPPORT, CAPITAL CAMPAIGN, CURIOUS KIDS' MUSEUM ON MAIN STREET, OUTDOOR GARDEN & MUSICAL STAIRS SUPPORT, CAPITAL CAMPAIGN "BUILDING CURIOSITY-PLAY A PART, FUND THE FUND
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$86,550

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT, FIRE DAMAGE/REPAIRS SUPPORT, BUILDING CAMPAIGN
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$86,000

2024 SOUND GARDEN INSTALLATION, GENERAL SUPPORT, DINOSAUR EXHIBIT
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$38,700

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT, FLOOR PROJECTOR INTERACTIVE GAME SUPPORT - DISCOVERY ZONE, FUNDRAISER
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

$7,000

2024 ARTS, CULTURE
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

$6,000

2022 ARTS, CULTURE
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

$5,551

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.