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COSMOSPHERE INC

EIN 48-6120520 HUTCHINSON, KS

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Revenue 2024
$6,559,444
Expenses 2024
$5,274,846

Program services were 77.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A500
Classification
2000
Street
1100 N PLUM 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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO STIMULATE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, EXHIBITS, AND EXPERIENCES THAT ARE EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING THRU THE OPERATION OF A PUBLIC MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM.

  • COSMOSPHERE AND SPACE CENTER WITH EXHIBITS AND GIFT SHOP SERVING STUDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC

    Expenses $4,096,122 · Revenue $2,724,943

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.

  • Greg Fast

    DIRECTOR (CITY REP)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rob Fee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Carter File

    DIRECTOR (HCC REP)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tony Hoover

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carissa Jackson

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wes Kimmel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sheila Meggers

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Neal

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Pritchett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Remar

    C.E.O.

    Total calculated
    $205,828
    From this org
    $169,954
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,874
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $169,954
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,437
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,437
    Filer's total
    $205,828

  • Erica Shook

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Springer

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Debra Teufel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Teresa Wagner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steven Birdsall

    C.F.O.

    Total calculated
    $129,629
    From this org
    $101,915
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,714
    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,559,444
    Expenses
    $5,274,846
    Contributions
    $3,801,059
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,411,038
    Expenses
    $5,391,685
    Contributions
    $2,673,545
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,455,590
    Expenses
    $5,041,214
    Contributions
    $2,010,692
    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
    $5,989,265
    Expenses
    $5,098,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,276,263

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,598,416
    Expenses
    $4,229,296
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,555,384

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,476,326
    Expenses
    $5,010,878
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,255,815

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,638,007
    Expenses
    $4,973,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,243,856

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,595,526
    Expenses
    $4,586,900
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,850,983

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,858,872
    Expenses
    $4,801,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,259,832

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,195,040
    Expenses
    $4,345,588
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,778,539

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,644,924
    Expenses
    $4,391,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,856,446

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,872,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,901,136

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,872,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,039,040

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

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