- Revenue 2024
- $1,038,281
- Expenses 2024
- $1,833,470
Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A56
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 5321 W 135TH ST 2650
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
THE MUSEUM AT PRAIRIEFIRE IS COMMITTED TO INNOVATIVE LEARNING IN SCIENCE, THE ARTS, AND NATURAL HISTORY. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)THROUGH A FOUNDING COLLABORATION WITH THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN NEW YORK CITY, AS WELL AS WITH OTHER CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE NATION, THE MUSEUM AT PRAIRIEFIRE IS A PLACE THAT PROVIDES ACCESS FOR ALL TO UNDERSTAND AND CELEBRATE NATURAL HISTORY, THE ARTS, AND SCIENCE IN OUR REGION AND AROUND THE WORLD. THE MUSEUM ENGAGES VISITORS AND STUDENTS OF ALL AGES WITH WORLD-CLASS EXHIBITIONS, IMPORTANT PROGRAMMING, AND SIGNIFICANT EDUCATIONAL AND STEAM OPPORTUNITIES.
Activities or mission (Part I)
OPEN THE DOOR FOR BRIGHT FUTURES BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO UNIQUE STEAM EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL.
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THE MUSEUM AT PRAIRIEFIRE IS COMMITTED TO INNOVATIVE LEARNING IN SCIENCE, THE ARTS, AND NATURAL HISTORY. THE MUSEUM ENGAGES VISITORS AND STUDENTS OF ALL AGES WITH WORLD-CLASS EXHIBITIONS, IMPORTANT PROGRAMMING, AND SIGNIFICANT EDUCATIONAL AND STEAM OPPORTUNITIES. INDIVIDUAL TOURS, SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS, AND SHOPPING CENTER PATRONS CAN EXPERIENCE THE LOCALLY DEVELOPED EXHIBITS AND HAVE INCREASED TICKET SALES OVER PRIOR YEARS.
Expenses $1,621,801 · Revenue $626,067
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.
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FRED MERRILL JR
CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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ANAB ABDULAHI
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DR MICHAEL ENGEL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
J FRANK EMERT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRETT GORDON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SCOTT K MARTINSEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DELANA MEYER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOE PLATT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
STEVE TROESTER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TERRI THOMPSON
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $137,038
- From this org
- $108,650
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $28,388
- 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,038,281
- Expenses
- $1,833,470
- Contributions
- $409,193
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $927,298
- Expenses
- $1,761,889
- Contributions
- $341,470
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $948,565
- Expenses
- $1,637,776
- Contributions
- $467,552
- 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
- $1,239,389
- Expenses
- $1,475,543
- Assets (EOY)
- $21,085,605
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $511,238
- Expenses
- $1,512,761
- Assets (EOY)
- $21,439,799
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,058,022
- Expenses
- $1,856,016
- Assets (EOY)
- $21,969,540
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,130,401
- Expenses
- $2,238,492
- Assets (EOY)
- $22,898,280
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,281,489
- Expenses
- $2,849,692
- Assets (EOY)
- $23,648,327
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,033,812
- Expenses
- $3,509,423
- Assets (EOY)
- $24,768,693
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $958,890
- Expenses
- $3,166,744
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,739,942
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,660,218
- Expenses
- $2,173,008
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,255,876
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $790,059
- Expenses
- $384,857
- Assets (EOY)
- $897,933
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 2010
- Tax period
- 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010
- Principal officer
- Fred Merrill Jr
- Mailing address
- 6240 W 135th StreetOverland Park KS 66223
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
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2023 SUSTAINABILITY GRANT
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2022 START UP STIPEND, SUSTAINABILITY GRANT
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2023 PANDEMIC RECOVERY
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2024 Arts & Culture
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2024 TRANSPORTATION FOR FIELD TRIPS
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$10,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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.