COX SCIENCE CENTER AND AQUARIUM INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A570

Classification

2800

Street

4801 DREHER TRL N

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

• The Science Center welcomed more than 188,000 visitors last year. The Center features more than 100 interactive exhibits, an immersive fresh and saltwater aquarium, full-dome planetarium, the world's most advanced exhibit on the human brain, and an outdoor science-themed trail.

  Expenses $2,708,019 · Revenue $2,288,703

• The Center served over 150,000 students through outreach education, in-house field trips and family programs and over 12,000 of these students are served through its award-winning STEM night programs in the schools. Our main target for educational grant programming is Palm Beach County School District Title 1 students from Kindergarten through 8th grade. The School District is the 10th largest in the nation and almost 45% of the students participating come from under-served communities through grant programming initiatives under a district-wide agreement. The partnership focuses on improvement in student achievement by granting students access to real-world STEM experiences.

  Expenses $2,159,862 · Revenue $494,047

• Provided guest services, a museum store, planetarium, observatory, and memberships to enhance the visitor's experience. Hosted science-themed community events regularly, including adult lectures, afterschool clubs, robotics teams, G.E.M.S. Club (Girls in Engineering Math & Science), and laser concerts.

  Expenses $648,081 · Revenue $145,362

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $35,260,264

  Expenses

  $8,335,388

  Contributions

  $30,457,519

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $43,883,560

  Expenses

  $7,725,325

  Contributions

  $42,548,290

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $23,053,756

  Expenses

  $7,576,689

  Contributions

  $19,698,460

  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

  $24,064,576

  Expenses

  $6,925,016

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,757,055

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,179,164

  Expenses

  $4,138,512

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,064,947

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,058,047

  Expenses

  $3,961,830

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,600,840

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,496,833

  Expenses

  $4,448,322

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,916,768

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,797,463

  Expenses

  $3,433,676

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,123,487

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $14,074,500

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $6,373,000

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $3,437,500

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH & MARTIN COUNTIES INC

  $1,261,000

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE, & HUMANITIES

• PRIME TIME PALM BEACH COUNTY INC

  $376,890

  2024 · To "open every mind to science".

• PRIME TIME PALM BEACH COUNTY INC

  $366,082

  2022 · To "open every mind to science".

• PRIME TIME PALM BEACH COUNTY INC

  $335,397

  2023 · To "open every mind to science".

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH & MARTIN COUNTIES INC

  $291,268

  2022 · EDUCATION

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $130,000

  2024 · RELIGION

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $120,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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