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WOW CHILDRENS MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER LTD

EIN 84-1421537 LAFAYETTE, CO

Revenue 2024
$848,949
Expenses 2024
$917,132

Program services were 71.4% 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
110 N HARRISON AVE

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

WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ENGAGES ALL FAMILIES IN EDUCATIONAL, HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES THAT CONNECT CURIOSITY, CREATIVITY AND DISCOVERY.

  • WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FEATURES EXHIBITS AND PROGRAMMING DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE CHILDREN, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS TO PLAY, EXPLORE AND LEARN IN A WELCOMING COMMUNITY SETTING. EXHIBITS SUCH AS MICRO U, DISCOVERY GARDEN, THE MARKET AND BANK CELEBRATE CHILDREN'S NATURAL INSTINCTS TO LEARN THROUGH DISCOVERY AND IMAGINATIVE PLAY, AND OFFER DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE EXPERIENCES FOR YOUNG LEARNERS. DROP-IN SCIENCE, ART AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS EXPAND ON THE MUSEUM'S EMPHASIS ON CURIOSITY AND COMMUNITY. WITH THEMES SUCH AS KINDERGARTEN READINESS AND GIRLS IN SCIENCE, AFTER-HOURS EVENTS OFFER CAREGIVERS SUPPORT IN WORKING WITH THEIR LITTLE ONES ON ACADEMIC, EMOTIONAL AND LIFE SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

    Expenses $631,089 · Revenue $488,987

  • WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM BRINGS OUR PLAY-BASED LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE ACTIVITIES TO COMMUNITY SITES: SCHOOLS, DAYCARES, LIBRARIES AND OTHERS AROUND BOULDER COUNTY, WITH A PRIORITY ON SERVING SITES THAT REACH LOW-INCOME STUDENTS. EDUCATION OUTREACH PROGRAMS COMPLEMENT COLORADO ACADEMIC STANDARDS AND PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO EXPERIENCE HANDS-ON OPPORTUNITIES EMBEDDED IN THE MUSEUM'S LEARNING FRAMEWORK, WITHOUT NEEDING TO SECURE SOMETIMES CUMBERSOME TRANSPORTATION.

    Expenses $23,839 · Revenue $18,493

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.

  • JOANNA CAGAN

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $93,255
    From this org
    $93,255
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • VICTORIA JOHNS

    PAST PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

  • EMILY FEARNOW

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

  • LAUREN BARTHEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

  • LYNN ANDREWS

    PROGRAMMING

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

  • PEGGY GOODBODY

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

  • BEN SCARBROUGH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

  • ALI LEE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

  • ANNE PREBLE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

  • CINDY RUECKERT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

  • CORINE WALDAU

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.57

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
    $848,949
    Expenses
    $917,132
    Contributions
    $329,974
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $840,659
    Expenses
    $794,075
    Contributions
    $369,314
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $785,887
    Expenses
    $739,875
    Contributions
    $454,754
    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
    $593,552
    Expenses
    $529,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $438,869

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $454,403
    Expenses
    $557,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $410,887

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $865,921
    Expenses
    $783,257
    Assets (EOY)
    $612,209

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $776,501
    Expenses
    $717,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $534,151

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $687,065
    Expenses
    $626,697
    Assets (EOY)
    $504,315

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $639,147
    Expenses
    $593,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,012

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $537,386
    Expenses
    $527,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $398,270

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $506,053
    Expenses
    $482,260
    Assets (EOY)
    $527,661

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $465,774
    Expenses
    $498,715
    Assets (EOY)
    $529,076

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $464,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $499,713

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