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DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY

EIN 33-0828380 SANTA ANA, CA

Revenue 2024
$21,458,282
Expenses 2024
$17,084,030

Program services were 82.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A50
Classification
1000
Street
2500 N MAIN 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

WE INSPIRE AND EDUCATE YOUNG MINDS THROUGH ENGAGING SCIENCE-BASED PROGRAMS AND EXHIBITS TO CREATE A MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE.

  • DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER - TO PROVIDE A WORLD CLASS, HANDS ON EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER DESIGNED TO INSPIRE A FASCINATION WITH SCIENCE AND MATH AND LAY A FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE ACHIEVEMENT IN THESE AREAS.

    Expenses $11,849,178 · Revenue $6,033,580

  • EDUCATION OUTREACH - OUR GOAL IS TO COMPLEMENT ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM WITH HANDS ON INSTRUCTION IN SCIENCE AND INSPIRE CHILDREN TO PURSUE FURTHER EDUCATION IN SCIENCE. THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT SERVES OVER 350,000 CHILDREN IN THE ORANGE COUNTY, RIVERSIDE, SAN BERNADINO, SAN DIEGO, VENTURA, AND LOS ANGELES AREAS.

    Expenses $2,163,258 · Revenue $1,253,619

  • FIELD TRIPS TO DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER - PROVIDE SCIENCE FIELD TRIPS TO OVER 68,000 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN TO COMPLEMENT THE CALIFORNIA ELEMENTARY EDUCATION CURRICULUM.

    Revenue $786,457

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.

  • JOE ADAMS

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $761,338
    From this org
    $493,913
    From related orgs
    $243,271
    Other
    $24,154
    Hours/week
    27 + 13 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $411,731 + $202,793 related
    Bonus
    $82,182 + $40,478 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,557 + $2,737 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,626 + $5,234 related
    Filer's total
    $510,096 + $251,242 related

  • RICK BAILY

    BOARD CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • TOM MCDORMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAN BOLAR

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KARL KREUTZIGER

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STANTON ROWE

    OFFICER AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ADAM BRAND

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CAREY DUNLOP

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVID TAYLOR

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DEL STAGG PHD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • EMILY HOROWITZ

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $19,958
    From this org
    $19,958
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • HENRY PYLE

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JANET BURNS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JANET RAY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JAY-PAUL SPENUZZA ESQUIRE

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JEFF WHITTON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MARK SKAIST

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • OLI THORDARSON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • PETER ZOFREA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • VINCENT SARMIENTO

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JAMES ROMERO

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BARTON WARNER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JAMES DIERKING

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • NIKKI BENNETT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • VALERIE AMEZCUA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. 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
    $21,458,282
    Expenses
    $17,084,030
    Contributions
    $11,899,988
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $18,328,307
    Expenses
    $15,386,920
    Contributions
    $7,996,154
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,731,986
    Expenses
    $13,697,872
    Contributions
    $4,820,106
    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
    $26,194,294
    Expenses
    $12,640,575
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,809,996

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,785,787
    Expenses
    $7,712,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,805,165

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,588,350
    Expenses
    $24,564,132
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,424,755

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,373,093
    Expenses
    $14,635,850
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,344,957

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,003,287
    Expenses
    $16,087,189
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,950,959

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,643,255
    Expenses
    $16,972,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $70,990,585

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,759,966
    Expenses
    $15,771,951
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,619,429

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,117,931
    Expenses
    $13,357,226
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,504,056

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,048,057
    Expenses
    $11,254,100
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,405,081

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $12,898,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,940,711

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

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

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

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