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SCIENCENTER DISCOVERY MUSEUM

EIN 22-2470652 ITHACA, NY

Revenue 2023
$3,484,361
Expenses 2023
$3,441,902

Program services were 74.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A570
Classification
1000
Street
601 1ST 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).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DAISY ROSAS VARGAS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN BAUER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY OPPERMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JESSICA SCHABER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEORGE GULL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICKIE SANDERS-JAUQUET

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURIE ROBINSON

    FORMER CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARRIE JUBRAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA IPPOLITO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COSTA LAMBROU

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC ROSARIO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC TOFTEGAARD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHAWN WILCZYNSKI

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • QI ZHANG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL BRITT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ED MALONE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHANTAL CHAMPAGNE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK JAUQUET

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CONRAD WOLAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VICTORIA ZEPPELIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE KORTENAAR

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $164,961
    From this org
    $160,556
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,405
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,556
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,405
    Filer's total
    $164,961

  • CHRIS FAGAN

    CFO & VP OF ADMINISTRATION

    Total calculated
    $118,036
    From this org
    $114,956
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,080
    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 — 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,484,361
    Expenses
    $3,441,902
    Contributions
    $1,734,105
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,857,201
    Expenses
    $2,987,794
    Contributions
    $1,473,984
    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.

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

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