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SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM INC

EIN 56-0770432 GASTONIA, NC

Revenue 2024
$1,715,398
Expenses 2024
$1,964,363

Program services were 80.6% 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
1500 E GARRISON BLVD

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 · 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.

  • ANN TIPPITT

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $147,973
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $138,987
    Other
    $8,986

  • BRIAN ADAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WADE APPLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATSY DAVIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COLEMAN EFIRD

    VICE CHAIRMA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAMI FARRIS

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN FORGAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JIM GALLAGHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR KEMERY GILBERT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEEANN HARRIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DARA HARTMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TREY HELMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMANDA JARMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID KIRLIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS KOLBASH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHUCK NIEMEYER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PARAG PHADKE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROSE PLANER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEN ROWE

    IMMEDIATE PA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIN RUSSELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANIE STILES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SARAH SUMNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CRAIG WATSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,715,398
    Expenses
    $1,964,363
    Contributions
    $838,761
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,301,045
    Expenses
    $1,558,935
    Contributions
    $622,282
    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.