Scienceworks Hands-On Museum

Analysis

Scienceworks Hands-On Museum is a registered charity in United States, based in Ashland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Scienceworks Hands-On Museum reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.0m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $1.1m (-6.7%), an average of -1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Scienceworks Hands-On Museum sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dibble Institute for Marriage Education ($1.1m), Millwald Theatre Inc ($1.1m) and Refuge Productions Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 52% and program service revenue 45% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $543k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $174k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 34 employees.