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CHILDRENS CREATIVITY MUSEUM

EIN 94-3178735 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,635,425
Expenses 2024
$2,385,578

Program services were 78.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A60Z
Classification
1000
Street
221 4TH 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 childrens creativity museum (CCM) is a hands-on, multimedia arts and technology museum for children. Its mission is to nurture creativity and collaboration in all children and families. We believe that creative expression, innovation, and critical thinking are core to fostering the next generation.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Childrens Creativity Museum, a hands-on, multi-media arts and technology museum, nurtures creativity and collaboration in all children and families. The museum believes that creative expression, innovation, and critical thinking are core to [continued on Sch. O]

  • Creativity Museum and Creativity Theater:The Childrens Creativity Museum (CCM) was founded originally as Zeum through a downtown San Francisco community redevelopment effort in the 1990s. Our 25+ years operating at the cross-section of art, design, and innovation infuses a look - and please touch! experience rarely found in museums. By providing a safe environment for children, youth, and families to engage in play-based learning, explore their curiosities, and tackle hands-on design challenges, we build essential creative confidence and collaboration skills.CCM proudly connects with children and families in our community through school field trips (serving primarily Title I schools for free), (continued on Schedule O)

    Expenses $1,192,023 · Revenue $1,550,049

  • Networks and Outreach:CCM works with colleagues at local, state, and national levels to expand opportunities for children and youth typically underrepresented in the arts and sciences. Nationally, we help lead NASAs National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net), serve as a founding member of the LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network, jointly manage howtosmile.org and its online STEM activities for all ages, and advise on a range of projects using analog and digital technology to engage children and caregivers in art-and-science learning. Regionally, we facilitate a community of practice to leverage the power of play in museums throughout Northern California. Locally, we amplify the voices of AAPI communities in partnership with the SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural Heritage District. (continued on Schedule O)

    Expenses $628,891 · Grants $281,700

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $44,534

  • Creativity Museum and Creativity Theater(continued from Form 990 Page 2)discounted group visits for youth-serving organizations such as YMCA and Boys & Girls Clubs, and free festivals in our courtyard, Creativity Theater, and adjacent carousel plaza. When our community gathers to play, creativity and collaboration follows regardless of race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, or income.Networks and Outreach(continued from Form 990 Page 2)We regularly participate in neighborhood festivals, local outreach events, online webinars, and nationwide conferences to promote joyful, open-ended learning.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Darrell Porcello

    Dir of STEM

    Total calculated
    $164,412
    From this org
    $154,388
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,024
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,388
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,024
    Filer's total
    $164,412

  • Carol Tang

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $154,776
    From this org
    $154,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $391
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,385
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $391
    Filer's total
    $154,776

  • Katharine Greenbaum

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $114,425
    From this org
    $113,811
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $614
    Hours/week
    40

  • Raj Kapoor

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Sonia Chang

    Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Merve Lapus

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ross Culverwell

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jennifer De Palm

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alice Ferguson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Herve Gomez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kai Haley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Khafre Jay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darlene Lin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carol Liu

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sergio Lopez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stella Ma

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sudheer Tegualpalle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marcus von Engel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Wong Schaeuble

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tania Zapata

    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, 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
    $2,635,425
    Expenses
    $2,385,578
    Contributions
    $1,124,225
    Grants paid
    $281,700
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,135,636
    Expenses
    $2,100,876
    Contributions
    $1,596,010
    Grants paid
    $42,918
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,135,636
    Expenses
    $2,100,876
    Contributions
    $1,596,010
    Grants paid
    $42,918
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,909,487
    Expenses
    $2,106,298
    Contributions
    $629,239
    Grants paid
    $30,000

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
    $1,896,446
    Expenses
    $1,972,728
    Assets (EOY)
    $778,507

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,899,673
    Expenses
    $1,959,163
    Assets (EOY)
    $787,783

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,014,568
    Expenses
    $1,149,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $909,867

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,974,954
    Expenses
    $2,189,005
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,017,330

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,689,719
    Expenses
    $2,705,465
    Assets (EOY)
    $660,224

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,295,416
    Expenses
    $2,220,716
    Assets (EOY)
    $657,692

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,148,308
    Expenses
    $2,037,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $619,282

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,121,580
    Expenses
    $2,118,434
    Assets (EOY)
    $491,149

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,004,326
    Expenses
    $2,027,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $537,431

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,862,766
    Expenses
    $1,987,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $393,026

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

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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.