Liabilities / Assets
40th percentile
Higher debt load relative to assets than 40% of similar nonprofits.
990 • Fiscal year 2012 • EIN 06-0740527
Precomputed percentiles for this filing year versus similar nonprofits in the same peer cohort.
Liabilities / Assets
40th percentile
Higher debt load relative to assets than 40% of similar nonprofits.
Liabilities / Revenue
Score unavailable
Liabilities-to-revenue requires both liabilities and revenue on this filing.
Net Margin
Score unavailable
Net margin requires both revenue and expenses on this filing.
Top Officer Pay
Score unavailable
This filing does not contain officer compensation rows.
Asset Growth
17th percentile
Faster asset growth than 17% of similar nonprofits.
Revenue Growth
Score unavailable
No valid filing value is available for this score.
Assets
Down$4,248,998
Down $323,669 (-7.1%) from 2011
Net Assets
Down$3,989,904
Down $373,966 (-8.6%) from 2011
Liabilities
Up$259,094
Up $50,297 (+24%) from 2011
Revenue
-
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Expenses
Down$1,423,650
Down $625,460 (-31%) from 2011
Net Income
-
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
The Discovery Museum strives to engage, excite, and educate young learners through experiences and programs that inspire wonder and ignite creativity as the foundation for a lifetime love of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning.The Museums core audience is young learners ages 5-14 who connect to us with their teachers and classmates during the school day or by themselves or with their families, mentors, or social groups after school, on weekends, during school vacations or in the summer. We provide a hardy portfolio of STEM learning experiences including; unmediated gallery-based exploration of STEM focused temporary and permanent exhibits; over 80 unique onsite and offsite mediated demonstrations and learning labs; a Challenger Learning Center space exploration simulation; Planetarium shows; unique grant-funded school-museum science learning partnerships; and an engaging 7-week summer STEM learning program.
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2012 • Form 990Facts available. Structured filing facts are available, but richer extracted sections are limited.