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EXPLORE CENTER INC

EIN 63-0762151 MOBILE, AL

Revenue 2024
$2,591,442
Expenses 2024
$2,377,722

Program services were 98.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A570
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1968

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

EDUCATION OF YOUTH AND ADULTS IN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS

  • THE ORGANIZATION ENHANCES THE UNDERSTANDING OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND THE ARTS THROUGH THE OPERATION OF BOTH A HANDS ON MUSEUM AND A RESTORED 1855 ANTEBELLUM HOME

    Expenses $2,333,797

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.

  • ROBERT S FROST

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID L TRENT

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID CLARK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIMOTHY A DELONG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELISSA HORTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DARRYL C GAINES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEE GAMBILL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUZY HARDY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN W STEADMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KARIENE M FORTNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHERINE REAVES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAI UNGER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES DUNNING

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DON COMEAUX

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,591,442
    Expenses
    $2,377,722
    Contributions
    $1,428,960
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,965,270
    Expenses
    $2,353,626
    Contributions
    $894,562
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,869,324
    Expenses
    $2,060,133
    Contributions
    $1,315,258
    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
    $2,745,449
    Expenses
    $1,888,575
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,700,934

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,220,263
    Expenses
    $1,630,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,416,683

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,990,427
    Expenses
    $1,747,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,288,094

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,780,067
    Expenses
    $2,379,175
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,356,071

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,702,529
    Expenses
    $2,412,011
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,387,293

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,176,085
    Expenses
    $2,477,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,713,655

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,427,698
    Expenses
    $2,712,869
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,922,654

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,616,203
    Expenses
    $12,093,123
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,636,753

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,591,400
    Expenses
    $3,384,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,979,060

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,774,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,891,759

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

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.