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GREAT EXPLORATIONS INC

EIN 59-2763359 SAINT PETERSBURG, FL

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Revenue 2024
$2,989,840
Expenses 2024
$3,470,537

Program services were 76.3% 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
19254TH STR N

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 MISSION OF GREAT EXPLORATIONS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM IS TO STIMULATE LEARNING THROUGH CREATIVITY, PLAY, AND EXPLORATION. THIS IS ACHIEVED THROUGH DIVERSE EXHIBITS AND PROGRAMS THAT INSPIRE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO STIMULATE LEARNING THROUGH CREATIVITY, PLAY AND EXPLORATION.

  • MUSEUM PROGRAMS THAT HELP CHILDREN TO LEARN BY ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY, PLAY AND EXPLORATION. THESE INCLUDE EXHIBITS AND ACTIVITIES WITH BOTH SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL FOCUS.

    Expenses $2,648,358 · Revenue $2,048,218

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.

  • Melissa Pinkerton

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Lauren Carlan

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Rainer Pelzel

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Jordan Loebel

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Katherine Childs

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Donna Cothron

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Martha Fabelo MD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Alex Jaber

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Alicia Jackson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Jason Jensen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Vanessa King

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Victoria Mazur

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Megan Michalski

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Bhumi Upadhyay

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Brooks Wallington

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Angeline Howell

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $113,929
    From this org
    $113,929
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Laurel Ginn

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $79,200
    From this org
    $79,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Alan Kahle

    COO

    Total calculated
    $91,108
    From this org
    $91,108
    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
    $2,989,840
    Expenses
    $3,470,537
    Contributions
    $955,272
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,169,801
    Expenses
    $3,349,467
    Contributions
    $928,253
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,799,467
    Expenses
    $2,578,037
    Contributions
    $886,844
    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
    $3,067,549
    Expenses
    $2,447,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,260,531
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,902,015
    Expenses
    $1,716,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,633,597
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,095,129
    Expenses
    $2,348,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,602,120
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,150,007
    Expenses
    $2,257,123
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,435,332
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,821,770
    Expenses
    $2,186,957
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,827,011
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,928,557
    Expenses
    $1,778,539
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,189,182
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,607,388
    Expenses
    $1,688,405
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,032,355
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,357,177
    Expenses
    $1,498,668
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,095,134
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,379,814
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,225,515
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,528,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,390,068

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.