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ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER

EIN 86-0390558 PHOENIX, AZ

Revenue 2023
$17,333,543
Expenses 2023
$14,346,452

Program services were 72.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A570
Classification
1000
Street
600 E WASHINGTON 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 · 2023

Mission

TO INSPIRE, EDUCATE AND ENGAGE CURIOUS MINDS THROUGH SCIENCE.

  • ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER IMPACTS MORE THAN 800,000 STUDENTS, FAMILIES, EDUCATORS AND VISITORS ACROSS THE STATE IN ITS MISSION TO INSPIRE, EDUCATE, AND ENGAGE CURIOUS MINDS THROUGH SCIENCE. ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL ATTRACTIONS IN ARIZONA AND IS THE ONLY RESOURCE OF ITS KIND IN THE STATE. ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER FEATURES A FULL COMPLEMENT OF INFORMAL SCIENCE PROGRAMMING INCLUDING MORE THAN 300 HANDS-ON EXHIBITS, A GIANT SCREEN THEATER, DORRANCE PLANETARIUM, FEATURED EXHIBITIONS, LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS, CAMPS AND WORKSHOPS, ADULT LECTURES, AND SCHOOL SERVICES INCLUDING FIELD TRIPS, IN-CLASS OUTREACH PROGRAMS, TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACCESS TO OUR COMMUNITY-BASED MAKER-SPACE, CREATE. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE 0)ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER CONTINUES TO BE A STATE LEADER IN PROVIDING INFORMAL SCIENCE EDUCATION EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE LONG-TERM IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY. K-12 TEACHERS, SCHOOL LEADERS, AND PARENTS WERE PROVIDED ACCESS TO AN INNOVATIVE COMBINATION OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES TO ENHANCE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER'S ANNUAL VISITATION INCLUDES 100,000 SCHOOLCHILDREN AND TEACHERS REPRESENTING MORE THAN 100 CITIES AND TOWNS THROUGHOUT ARIZONA WHO VISIT THE CENTER, INCLUDING OVER 40,000 UNDERSERVED YOUTH WHO VISIT AT NO CHARGE THROUGH THE FOCUSED FIELD TRIPS PROGRAM. IN ADDITION, MORE THAN 90,000 CHILDREN AND ADULTS EXPERIENCED SCIENCE ON WHEELS OUTREACH PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT ARIZONA INCLUDING RURAL AREAS AND TRIBAL NATIONS.IN CREATE, A 6,500 - SQUARE FOOT COMMUNITY MAKER-SPACE, LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE SCIENCE CENTER BUILDING, INDIVIDUALS USED TRADITIONAL AND HIGH-TECH MACHINERY, TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALS. GUESTS RECEIVED SUPERVISION AND TRAINING, ENCOURAGING INDIVIDUALS TO BE MORE EXPERIMENTAL, CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE, INDEPENDENT AND TECHNOLOGICALLY PROFICIENT. IN CREATE, MAKERS OF ALL AGES WERE ACTIVE, ENGAGED, PLAYFUL AND RESOURCEFUL WITH A NEWLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF CURIOSITY AND WONDER WITH NEW SKILLS AND AN INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONS FOR WHICH THEY MAY BE SUITED.

    Expenses $10,439,913 · Grants $113,742 · Revenue $3,369,898

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • REBECCA AILES-FINE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ONDREA BARBER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS CAMPBELL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHUCK CAREFOOT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMANDA CARTWRIGHT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREW CHRISTENSEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JASON COOCHWYTEWA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAY CORBIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE DEBELL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STACY DERSTINE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL EDMONDS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAT EDWARDS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELINE FAVER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CURT FEUER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BJ FREEMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUE GLAWE

    TRUSTEE (THRU AUG 2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN GOOD

    AUDIT CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DERRICK HALL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANGIE HARMON

    TRUSTEE (THRU AUG 2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN HOOVER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVE HOWELL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEIDI JANNENGA

    TRUSTEE (THRU NOV 2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HOWARD KATZ

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENRO KUSUMI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYNN MADONNA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $17,333,543
    Expenses
    $14,346,452
    Contributions
    $12,627,405
    Grants paid
    $113,742
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,830,416
    Expenses
    $13,994,047
    Contributions
    $8,940,884
    Grants paid
    $378,160

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
    $11,579,588
    Expenses
    $9,032,386
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,163,691

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,552,615
    Expenses
    $7,806,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,216,193

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,722,895
    Expenses
    $10,873,772
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,311,504

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,313,702
    Expenses
    $12,072,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,655,246

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,126,200
    Expenses
    $11,351,330
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,670,705

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,442,419
    Expenses
    $9,868,682
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,523,464

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,387,249
    Expenses
    $10,074,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,224,774

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,476,460
    Expenses
    $11,188,674
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,703,233

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,489,014
    Expenses
    $10,771,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,785,523

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $10,926,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,417,208

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

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

    $111,096

    2022 NASA-FUNDED PROJECT, MOON AND BEYOND: AN IMMERSIVE GAME FOR STEM LEARNING IN MUSEUMS AND PLANETARIUMS

  • SKYLINE EDUCATION INC

    $88,892

    2022 THE NATIVE AMERICAN CODE WRITERS PROGRAM (NACWP) IS A REPLICABLE AND SUSTAINABLE MODEL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTRUCTION BASED ON WELL-DEVELOPED CURRICULA AND COMPREHENSIVE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. COUPLED WITH HANDS-ON ROBOTICS, THE PROGRAM PRODUCES A SOLID FOUNDATION OF PROGRESSIVE COURSES THAT WILL PRODUCE STUDENTS READY TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF CAREERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

  • INDIAN OASIS BABOQUIVARI UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #40

    $86,505

    2022 THE NATIVE AMERICAN CODE WRITERS PROGRAM (NACWP) IS A REPLICABLE AND SUSTAINABLE MODEL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTRUCTION BASED ON WELL-DEVELOPED CURRICULA AND COMPREHENSIVE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. COUPLED WITH HANDS-ON ROBOTICS, THE PROGRAM PRODUCES A SOLID FOUNDATION OF PROGRESSIVE COURSES THAT WILL PRODUCE STUDENTS READY TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF CAREERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

  • CHINLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

    $71,876

    2022 THE NATIVE AMERICAN CODE WRITERS PROGRAM (NACWP) IS A REPLICABLE AND SUSTAINABLE MODEL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTRUCTION BASED ON WELL-DEVELOPED CURRICULA AND COMPREHENSIVE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. COUPLED WITH HANDS-ON ROBOTICS, THE PROGRAM PRODUCES A SOLID FOUNDATION OF PROGRESSIVE COURSES THAT WILL PRODUCE STUDENTS READY TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF CAREERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

  • SARSEF SOUTHERN AZ RESEARCH SCIENCEENGINEERING FOUNDATION

    $48,192

    2023 ADE FAMILY AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING

  • BISBEE SCIENCE EXPLORATION & RESEARCH CENTER

    $45,550

    2023 ADE FAMILY AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING

  • SCIENCE VORTEX OF VERDE VALLEY

    $20,000

    2023 ADE FAMILY AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING

  • MUSEUM OF LIFE SCIENCE

    $19,791

    2022 NASA-FUNDED PROJECT, MOON AND BEYOND: AN IMMERSIVE GAME FOR STEM LEARNING IN MUSEUMS AND PLANETARIUMS

Where these grants went next →

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.