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BETTY BRINN CHILDRENS MUSEUM

EIN 39-1681155 MILWAUKEE, WI

Revenue 2024
$2,668,121
Expenses 2024
$2,715,117

Program services were 70.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A520
Classification
1000
Street
929 E WISCONSIN AVE 2ND FLOOR

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

THE MUSEUM INSPIRES ALL CHILDREN TO WONDER AND EXPLORE THEIR WORLD THROUGH PLAY AND INNOVATIVE, HANDS-ON LEARNING EXPERIENCES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO OPERATE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM & OTHER PROGRAMS FOR THE EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN, PROVIDING CHILDREN WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE COGNITIVE, PHYSICAL & EMOTIONAL GROWTH.

  • MUSEUM EXPERIENCE - INCLUDES ALL ASPECTS OF VISITING THE MUSEUM, EXHIBITS, HANDS-ON EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING, FIELD TRIPS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS.

    Expenses $986,515 · Revenue $1,163,152

  • OUTREACH - PROVIDES FREE ADMISSION AND MEMBERSHIPS, TRANSPORTATION/PARKING, AND HANDS-ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS FREE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $424,130

  • EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES - THESE PROGRAMS AND EVENTS ENHANCE EFFORTS TO EXPAND OUR "LEARNING-BY-DOING" MISSION TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $274,214

  • EXHIBIT DEVELOPMENT - INCLUDES CREATION, FABRICATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF EXHIBITS THAT ARE PART OF THE EXHIBIT RENTAL AND SALES PROGRAM TO OTHER VENUES. RENTAL EXHIBITS ARE DISPLAYED ON THE MUSEUM FLOOR ON A ROTATING BASIS AND ENHANCE THE MUSEUM EXPERIENCE.

    Expenses $218,693 · Revenue $265,088

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.

  • Laura Orr

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 2 related

  • Stephanie Lyons

    VICE-PRESIDENT, FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 2 related

  • Aaron Wegrzyn

    VICE-PRESIDENT, NOMINATING

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Amanda Boynes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrew Fleming

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Dionne Grayson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maggie Hammes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Heiny

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dea Wright

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Holly Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrew Keller

    PRESIDENT-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 3 related

  • Evan Kirkstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jennifer Lamacchia

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Belot

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gilbert Llanas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chad Figueroa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joan Phillips

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Greg Nickerson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Casandra Tate Mahoney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Victoria Teerlink

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brent Arnold

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Julie Dahms

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Erik Zipp

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • N'Jameh Russell-Camara

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Burgoon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    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
    $2,668,121
    Expenses
    $2,715,117
    Contributions
    $1,075,223
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,498,642
    Expenses
    $2,832,980
    Contributions
    $778,095
    Grants paid
    $250,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,520,010
    Expenses
    $2,752,999
    Contributions
    $992,852
    Grants paid
    $350,000

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
    $2,729,087
    Expenses
    $1,868,141
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,981,160

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,129,321
    Expenses
    $2,248,735
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,361,014

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,421,697
    Expenses
    $3,184,012
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,669,150

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,638,499
    Expenses
    $2,911,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,076,343

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,216,144
    Expenses
    $3,293,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,254,887

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,398,705
    Expenses
    $2,068,842
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,725,960

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,971,025
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,778,893

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,819,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,668,515

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

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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 2024 return

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