- Revenue 2025
- $494,549
- Expenses 2025
- $430,581
Program services were 70.5% 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
- 418 E WRIGHT ST
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 · 2025
Mission
AN INTERACTIVE SCIENCE MUSEUM WHICH ALLOWS HANDS-ON EXPLORATION OF "MATH, ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND STUFF" (MESS) SERVING THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
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HELD YEAR-ROUND WORKSHOPS AND SUMMER CAMPS TO FACILITATE LEARNING SCIENCE THROUGH HANDS-ON EXPERIMENTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS FOR VARIED AGE GROUPS.
Expenses $303,705 · Revenue $219,908
As filed on the 2025 return.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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MEGAN PRATT
EXECUTIVE DI
- Total calculated
- $52,700
- From this org
- $52,700
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
MICHAEL CRAWFORD
DIRECTOR/SEC
- Total calculated
- $0
-
RYAN HATLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
CAMILLE HENRY
DIRECTOR/TRE
- Total calculated
- $0
-
WYDRICK HILL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
ANDREW HOBBS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
NICK JOHNSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
MICAELA KIRWAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
HAILEY LOTZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
MELANIE LUNA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
STEPHEN MOODY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
BRIAN RANELLI
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
JENN RUFFIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
MATTHEW SCHWARTZ
DIRECTOR/VIC
- Total calculated
- $0
-
JESSI TRUETT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
DON VARELA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
BRADLEY VINSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
JENNIFER WALTRIP
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
KRISTINA ZIMMERN
DIRECTOR/CHA
- Total calculated
- $0
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
-
2025
- Revenue
- $494,549
- Expenses
- $430,581
- Contributions
- $245,579
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $500,265
- Expenses
- $445,708
- Contributions
- $232,945
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $413,773
- Expenses
- $374,058
- Contributions
- $204,005
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $444,841
- Expenses
- $340,569
- Contributions
- $244,746
- 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
- $280,865
- Expenses
- $251,278
- Assets (EOY)
- $420,708
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $245,937
- Expenses
- $212,732
- Assets (EOY)
- $387,255
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $308,322
- Expenses
- $322,889
- Assets (EOY)
- $366,638
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $340,259
- Expenses
- $315,265
- Assets (EOY)
- $381,314
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $312,848
- Expenses
- $310,347
- Assets (EOY)
- $355,399
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $353,976
- Expenses
- $309,165
- Assets (EOY)
- $354,699
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $325,975
- Expenses
- $247,416
- Assets (EOY)
- $307,867
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $265,003
- Expenses
- $192,700
- Assets (EOY)
- $222,122
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2012
- Tax period
- 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012
- Principal officer
- Megan Pratt
- Mailing address
- PO Box 847Pensacola FL 32591
- Website
- www.pensacolamesshall.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
-
$71,491
2024 RESEARCH GRANTS
-
2024 OPERATIONS
-
2023 OPERATIONS
-
2022 OPERATIONS
-
2022 IF/THEN GENDER EQUITY GRANT AWARD, UNIVERSE OF LEARNING MINIFUND
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2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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2024 NASA UNIVERSE OF LEARNING GRANT
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.