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MUSE KNOXVILLE

EIN 23-7039472 KNOXVILLE, TN

Revenue 2024
$1,732,953
Expenses 2024
$1,603,754

Program services were 70.8% 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
516 N BEAMAN 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 · 2024

Mission

TO INSPIRE AND EMPOWER ALL CHILDREN THROUGH TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES. OUR VISION IS TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY THE BEST PLACE FOR ALL TO LEARN THROUGH THE POWER OF PLAY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF OUR REGION EDUCATION, ENRICHMENT, EXCITEMENT, AND ENTERTAINMENT THROUGH ENGAGING EXPERIENCES IN SCIENCE AND ART.

  • MUSE KNOXVILLE IS A CHILDREN'S SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ARTS AND MATH (STEAM) MUSEUM LOCATED IN TENNESSEE. ONSITE, CHILDREN LEARN ABOUT THE STARS IN OUR FULL-DOME PLANETARIUM, PLAY WITH OUR STEAM EXHIBITS, AND PARTICIPATE IN PROGRAMS LIKE "STEAM SPROUTS." OFFSITE, MUSE KNOXVILLE IS THE LARGEST PROVIDER OF SCIENCE OUTREACH PROGRAMMING IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED TEACHERS FACILITATE HANDS-ON STEAM LESSONS IN PRE-KINDERGARTEN THROUGH FIFTH GRADE CLASSROOMS ACROSS 24 COUNTIES. SINCE MUSE'S INCEPTION IN 2013 THEY HAVE SERVED OVER ONE MILLION INDIVIDUALS THROUGH VARIED PROGRAMMING. IN SPRING OF 2020 AND IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, MUSE KNOXVILLE INTRODUCED AND DEVELOPED TAKE-HOME LEARNING KITS CALLED AMUSEMENTS KITS TO HELP CHILDREN CONTINUE TO ENGAGE IN HANDS-ON STEAM LEARNING IN THE SAFETY OF THEIR HOMES.

    Expenses $1,134,836 · Revenue $918,787

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • DR ANGELIQUE ADAMS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TRAVIS HARRIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC ROBERTSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRISTY ALTMAN

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • JIMM ALLEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GAYATRI MAHADEVAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • RYAN DOBBS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN BILLINGS

    BOARD CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • J BRANDON ROSS II

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DENISE DEAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHANNON JACKSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR JULIA MAYER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN SERGENT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DARRIS UPTON

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALLISON COMER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (CURREN

    Total calculated
    $89,962
    From this org
    $89,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • SEEMA SINGH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAUREN LONGMIRE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $1,732,953
    Expenses
    $1,603,754
    Contributions
    $771,268
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,526,913
    Expenses
    $1,475,157
    Contributions
    $624,120
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,454,452
    Expenses
    $1,695,917
    Contributions
    $1,664,929
    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
    $1,450,790
    Expenses
    $1,414,220
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,015,860

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,106,518
    Expenses
    $978,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $996,118

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,221,513
    Expenses
    $1,269,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $754,565

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,242,880
    Expenses
    $1,224,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $626,596

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,085,431
    Expenses
    $901,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $610,905

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $704,570
    Expenses
    $684,703
    Assets (EOY)
    $396,073

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $734,157
    Expenses
    $566,870
    Assets (EOY)
    $390,934

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $508,919
    Expenses
    $462,016
    Assets (EOY)
    $226,955

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $380,443
    Expenses
    $394,682
    Assets (EOY)
    $143,106

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $307,772
    Assets (EOY)
    $150,595

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.