ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

U20

Classification

1000

Street

5050 OAKLAND AVE

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• ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST LOUIS

  EIN 43-0718799

Mission and programs · 2025

• THE SAINT LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION PROVIDES FACILITIES AND DIRECT FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE OPERATIONS OF THE SAINT LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER. EACH YEAR, THE FOUNDATION SECURES CONTRIBUTED REVENUE TO SUPPORT THE SCIENCE CENTER'S MISSION TO INSPIRE EVERYONE TO BE CURIOUS AND ENGAGED IN SCIENCE. WELCOMING MORE THAN 640,000 GUESTS ANNUALLY, THE SCIENCE CENTER OFFERS DYNAMIC, ACCESSIBLE PROGRAMMING FOR LEARNERS OF ALL AGES INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, TEEN INITIATIVES LIKE YOUTH EXPLORING SCIENCE, AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS SUCH AS STL FOR ALL. SIGNATURE PROGRAMS LIKE SCIFEST, ESPORTS ENRICHMENT, AND SUMMERTIME SCIENCE CAMPS FOSTER HANDS-ON STEM LEARNING.CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE OANCHORED BY DESTINATIONS LIKE THE JAMES S. MCDONNELL PLANETARIUM AND THE OMNIMAX THEATER, THE SCIENCE CENTER SERVES AS A VITAL REGIONAL HUB FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT.

  Expenses $7,405,448 · Grants $4,042,700 · Revenue $5,015,419

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $10,815,081

  Expenses

  $9,659,434

  Contributions

  $4,852,762

  Grants paid

  $4,042,700

• 2024

  Revenue

  $8,144,810

  Expenses

  $5,870,873

  Contributions

  $4,015,297

  Grants paid

  $194,600

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,769,767

  Expenses

  $5,696,809

  Contributions

  $2,655,988

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $11,081,845

  Expenses

  $12,755,229

  Contributions

  $3,368,954

  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

  $19,478,193

  Expenses

  $12,992,583

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,330,924

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,476,945

  Expenses

  $11,511,723

  Assets (EOY)

  $52,073,485

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,435,760

  Expenses

  $15,104,659

  Assets (EOY)

  $54,290,199

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,754,445

  Expenses

  $13,575,537

  Assets (EOY)

  $52,951,303

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,361,624

  Expenses

  $14,623,532

  Assets (EOY)

  $55,361,326

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,492,836

  Expenses

  $11,569,333

  Assets (EOY)

  $55,919,983

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,825,558

  Expenses

  $12,676,074

  Assets (EOY)

  $51,379,659

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,272,770

  Expenses

  $13,503,812

  Assets (EOY)

  $48,487,064

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,356,909

  Expenses

  $17,169,477

  Assets (EOY)

  $49,758,286

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

• SAINT LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER

  $4,042,700

  2025 · TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF SCIENCE THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES.

• SAINT LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER

  $194,600

  2024 · TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF SCIENCE THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

  $4,515,000

  2023 · 60 FOR 60 CHALLENGE MATCH

• THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

  $422,790

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• Giant Dome Theater Consortium

  $180,000

  2023 · Disbursement

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $70,375

  2022 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $58,053

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $40,273

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• Giant Dome Theater Consortium

  $40,250

  2024 · Disbursement

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $28,261

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $28,206

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $21,858

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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