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WONDERTREK CHILDRENS MUSEUM

EIN 83-2715287 BRAINERD, MN

Revenue 2024
$403,957
Expenses 2024
$470,238

Program services were 83.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A52
Classification
1000
Street
1001 KINGWOOD ST STE 118

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

WONDERTREK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND ITS PARTNERS ENVISION A MORE VIBRANT AND CONNECTED REGION BECAUSE ALL CHILDREN ENJOY THE SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIPS, EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES, AND WELL-BEING THEY NEED TO THRIVE.

  • WONDERTREK BRINGS TOGETHER THE REGION'S CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN SHARED EXPERIENCES THAT ARE GROUNDED LOCALLY AND OPEN TO THE WIDER WORLD. DYNAMIC, MATERIAL-RICH ENVIRONMENTS, EXHIBITS, EVENTS, AND PROGRAMS ENGAGE CHILDREN IN THE JOY OF PLAY AND THE WONDER OF LEARNING.

    Expenses $390,961

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.

  • Paul Drange

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Chuck Albrecht

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dianne Heldman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Matt Killian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laine Larson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melissa McKay

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Quinn Swanson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shannon Wheeler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Peter Olson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $144,094
    From this org
    $144,094
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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
    $403,957
    Expenses
    $470,238
    Contributions
    $253,493
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,220,839
    Expenses
    $310,912
    Contributions
    $5,137,089
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $378,828
    Expenses
    $346,378
    Contributions
    $175,664
    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
    $261,254
    Expenses
    $322,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $98,999
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $81,735
    Expenses
    $218,319
    Assets (EOY)
    $153,653
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $608
    Expenses
    $121,618
    Assets (EOY)
    $289,149
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $450,540
    Expenses
    $40,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $410,159

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.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.