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BRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

EIN 76-0470234 GALVESTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$390,218
Expenses 2024
$406,000

Program services were 68.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A54
Classification
1000
Street
1315 21ST 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

THE MISSION OF THE BRYAN MUSEUM IS TO BRING THE HISTORY OF TEXAS AND THE AMERICAN WEST TO LIFE. THROUGH ITS WORLD-CLASS COLLECTIONS, EXHIBITIONS, AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND LITERACY PROGRAMS, STUDENTS OF ALL AGES GET A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O ) STORIES OF YESTERDAY AND WRITE THE STORIES OF TOMORROW.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE BRYAN MUSEUM IS TO BRING THE HISTORY OF TEXAS AND THE AMERICAN WEST TO LIFE. THROUGH ITS WORLD-CLASS COLLECTIONS, EXHIBITIONS, AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND LITERACY PROGRAMS, STUDENTS OF ALL AGES GET A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE STORIES OF YESTERDAY AND WRITE THE STORIES OF TOMORROW.

  • THE BRYAN MUSEUM HOUSES ITS ONE-OF-A-KIND COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 70,000 ARTIFACTS, ART, MAPS, BOOKS, AND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS IN THE HISTORIC FORMER GALVESTON ORPHANS HOME. HISTORY AND LITERACY FOCUSED INITIATIVES INCLUDE FREE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS, ADULT LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS, SUMMER CAMPS FOR KIDS, SPECIAL TOURS, AND SCHOOL TOURS FOR ALL GRADE LEVELS THAT COMPLEMENT FOURTH AND SEVENTH GRADE TEXAS HISTORY CURRICULUMS. THE MUSEUM'S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WELCOMED ALMOST 6,000 STUDENTS. IN ADDITION, THE ORGANIZATION TRAVELS MULTIPLE EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITS TO SCHOOL AND MUSEUM PARTNERS, HOSTS ANNUAL TEXAS HISTORY-BASED LITERACY AND PUBLISHING COMPETITIONS, SUPPLIES A CURRICULUM AND ONLINE RESOURCES TO EDUCATORS, PROVIDES HANDS-ON LEARNING EXPERIENCES, AND IS OFFICIALLY HOME (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O) TO THE LARGEST PUBLISHED BOOK IN THE WORLD BY KIDS CALLED I AM TEXAS, BREAKING A GUINNESS WORLD.

    Expenses $276,364 · Revenue $12,664

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.

  • J P Bryan

    PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Alicia Bryan

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Ed McMahon

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Fred Burns

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • John Crain

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Karl Rove

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Roland Sledge

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Jolyn West Scheirman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Jim Lykes

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Jay Lendrum

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Kelley Sullivan Georgiades

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Melissa Murphy

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,130
    From this org
    $117,577
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,553
    Hours/week
    40

  • Carol Bulla

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $102,425
    From this org
    $98,812
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,613
    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
    $390,218
    Expenses
    $406,000
    Contributions
    $324,407
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,207,653
    Expenses
    $4,095,016
    Contributions
    $5,965,652
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,185,598
    Expenses
    $3,403,572
    Contributions
    $2,484,462
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,628,245
    Expenses
    $3,405,119
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,133,234

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $2,408,537
    Expenses
    $3,097,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,461,183

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2016 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $3,708,347
    Expenses
    $3,836,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,639,093

  • 2015 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $3,348,606
    Expenses
    $3,480,714
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,891,916

  • 2014 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $2,819,990
    Expenses
    $2,371,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,962,488

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.

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