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THE@MUSEUM OF INFORMATION EXPLOSION

EIN 84-2627033 HUNTSVILLE, AL

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Revenue 2024
$1,099,582
Expenses 2024
$647,027

Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A57
Classification
2000
Street
1806 UNIVERSITY DR NW

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

To educate the community and visitors on the history of scientists, engineers, and business leaders who brought about a series of technology advances beginning with the telegraph and leading to modern cell phones.

  • To finalize the capital campaign and museum exhibits, hire and train staff, create the marketing plan and prepare for grand opening.

    Expenses $375,144 · Revenue $928,966

  • The museum opened on March 1, 2025 and presents a variety of exhibits and programs that uses a collection of over 2000 historical artifacts to educate guests on the subjects of science, the history of technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), while sharing the stories of the leaders, engineers, inventors and scientists who over 200 years helped to change communication from laborious hand delivered messages to modern day instantaneous hand-held electronic communication

    Expenses $205,011 · Revenue $170,616

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.

  • Marc J Bendickson

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Scott Jones

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Howard Glenn Burton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cindy Griner

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Linda L Quinn

    Member

    Total calculated
    $52,800
    From this org
    $52,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    16

  • Gina James

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $63,680
    From this org
    $63,680
    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
    $1,099,582
    Expenses
    $647,027
    Contributions
    $1,069,099
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $785,308
    Expenses
    $271,172
    Contributions
    $781,840
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $785,308
    Expenses
    $271,172
    Contributions
    $781,840
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $608,070
    Expenses
    $858,631
    Contributions
    $608,070
    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
    $672,041
    Expenses
    $420,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $624,844

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $100,000
    Expenses
    $103,556
    Assets (EOY)
    $173,122

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $500
    Expenses
    $30,424
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,463

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