Chicago children's museums

Name: Top 10 Chicago children's museums
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There are 10children's museums in the greater Chicagometro area, including the cities of Chicago, Bolingbrook, Des Plaines, Elgin, Evanston, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Schaumburg, Skokie, and Gary within the states of Illinois and Indiana. Combined, these Chicago metro children's museumsemploy 414 people, earn more than $21 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $56 million.

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Job trends for Chicago children's museums

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	0
1-10	2
11-25	0
26-100	3
101 to 1,000	3
1,000+	0

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Chicago children's museums is driven by large organizations like Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago, Chicago Children's Museum, DuPage Children's Museum (DCM), The Childrens Museum in Oak Lawn, and Frankfort Childrens Museum Kidswork Childrens Museum.

Sizes of children's museums in Chicago

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	2
$250k to $1M	2
$1M to $5M	2
$5M to $25M	2
$25M to $100M	0
$100M+	0

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Chicago Children's Museum, DuPage Children's Museum (DCM), Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago, Wonder Works Children's Museum, and The Childrens Museum in Oak Lawn earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Chicago children's museums.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 7.8% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Chicago children's museums with more than $100 million account for 0.0% of nonprofit earnings.

Directory of children's museums in Chicago

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DuPage Children's Museum (DCM)

DuPage Children's Museum's mission is to stimulate curiosity, creativity, thinking and problem solving in young children through self-directed, open-ended experiences; integration of the arts, science and math; the child-adult learning partnership.

Revenue

$6.0m

Assets

$13.0m

Employees

103

EIN

36-3565001

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Chicago Children's Museum

Chicago Children's Museum encourages play and learning, offering hands-on exhibits and workshops for families and school groups in Chicago.

Revenue

$8.1m

Assets

$16.8m

Employees

107

EIN

36-3162484

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago

Interactive children's museum in Glenview IL with 17 exhibits designed for self-directed play and a focus on lifelong learning.

Revenue

$3.9m

Assets

$18.8m

Employees

111

EIN

36-3706878

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Childrens Museum in Oak Lawn

A play-based children's museum in Oak Lawn positively impacting over 800,000+ visitors through education. Site location for the NISE Network's Earth & Space program.

Revenue

$974.6k

Assets

$2.8m

Employees

EIN

36-4389897

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Wonder Works Children's Museum

Wonder Works is an Illinois-based, nonprofit children's museum, offering art, performance, design, building, and nature experiences for kids.

Revenue

$1.0m

Assets

$1.1m

Employees

EIN

36-3805314

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Frankfort Childrens Museum Kidswork Childrens Museum

Frankfort Childrens Museum Kidswork Childrens Museum offers hands-on learning experiences and play for children, families, and the community.

Revenue

$498.7k

Assets

$614.8k

Employees

EIN

20-8950470

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Bronzeville Children's Museum

Bronzeville Children's Museum provides child-friendly education and cultural awareness for underserved African-American children in Chicago.

Revenue

$111.8k

Assets

$1.6m

Employees

EIN

36-3969177

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Busy Brains Childrens Museum

A children's museum in Lake Villa, IL that provides interactive exhibits and programs in arts, sciences, and humanities.

Revenue

$16.3k

Assets

$917.2k

Employees

EIN

20-0912711

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Des Plaines Childrens Museum

Des Plaines Childrens Museum is a children's museum in Des Plaines, IL that was founded in 2024.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

99-0499847

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Matteson Childrens Museum NFP

Matteson Childrens Museum NFP is a children's museum in Matteson, IL that was founded in 2024.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

99-3105006

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.

This category corresponds to the "A52: Childrens Museums" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.

Chicago children's museums

Job trends for Chicago children's museums

Sizes of children's museums in Chicago

Directory of children's museums in Chicago

DuPage Children's Museum (DCM)

Chicago Children's Museum

Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago

The Childrens Museum in Oak Lawn

Wonder Works Children's Museum

Frankfort Childrens Museum Kidswork Childrens Museum

Bronzeville Children's Museum

Busy Brains Childrens Museum

Des Plaines Childrens Museum

Matteson Childrens Museum NFP

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