San Francisco science museums

Name: Top 10 San Francisco science museums
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There are 10science and technology museums in the greater San Franciscometro area, including the cities of San Francisco, Berkeley, Livermore, Oakland, Pleasanton, Redwood City, San Mateo, San Rafael, San Ramon, South San Francisco, and Walnut Creek. Combined, these San Francisco metro science museumsemploy 832 people, earn more than $103 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $319 million.

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Job trends for San Francisco science museums

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	1
1-10	1
11-25	0
26-100	4
101 to 1,000	1
1,000+	0

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in San Francisco science museums is driven by large organizations like The Exploratorium, Chabot Space and Science Center Foundation, CuriOdyssey, Uss Hornet Sea Aircraft and Space Museum, and Hiller Aviation Institute.

Sizes of science museums in San Francisco

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	3
$250k to $1M	2
$1M to $5M	2
$5M to $25M	2
$25M to $100M	1
$100M+	0

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like The Exploratorium, CuriOdyssey, Chabot Space and Science Center Foundation, Uss Hornet Sea Aircraft and Space Museum, and Hiller Aviation Institute earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in San Francisco science museums.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 1.0% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in San Francisco science museums with more than $100 million account for 0.0% of nonprofit earnings.

Directory of science museums in San Francisco

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The Exploratorium

Inquiry-based science museum in San Francisco; creates, experiments, and tests interactive exhibits exploring art, human perception, and cutting-edge ideas.

Revenue

$79.6m

Assets

$275.0m

Employees

571

EIN

94-1696494

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Chabot Space and Science Center Foundation

Chabot Foundation operates the Science Center, supports education, and develops public interest in science through exhibits and programs.

Revenue

$6.9m

Assets

$8.7m

Employees

EIN

94-3146233

IRS type

501(c)(3)

CuriOdyssey

CuriOdyssey: science playground and zoo inspiring curiosity through hands-on exhibits, school programs, and a physics-in-action playground. Located in San Mateo, CA.

Revenue

$7.7m

Assets

$16.5m

Employees

EIN

94-1262434

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Hiller Aviation Institute

The Hiller Aviation museum uses Aviation as a gateway for people to embrace adventure and innovation while using tools of science to explore how the physical world works and how the dream of flight is made into reality.through exhibits and extensive inqui....

Revenue

$3.2m

Assets

$13.8m

Employees

EIN

94-3226411

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Uss Hornet Sea Aircraft and Space Museum

USS Hornet is a museum preserving and honoring the legacy of a WWII aircraft carrier, featuring public programs and education for school-aged children.

Revenue

$4.1m

Assets

$3.2m

Employees

EIN

94-3226801

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Space Station Museum

The Space Station Museum in Novato, CA preserves and exhibits artifacts related to spaceflight history and educates the public.

Revenue

$25

Assets

Employees

N/A

EIN

82-2028375

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The San Francisco Aeronautical Society

The San Francisco Aeronautical Society supports the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library and Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum through programs such as scholarships.

Revenue

$43.9k

Assets

$253.3k

Employees

N/A

EIN

94-3283216

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Wonderfest

Wonderfest provides informal science education, including the "Science Envoy Program" for Bay Area PhD students and the "Carl Sagan Prize.".

Revenue

$65.1k

Assets

$110.7k

Employees

N/A

EIN

45-2564798

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Quest Science Center

Quest Science Center inspires lifelong engagement with science and technology through hands-on programming, community outreach events, and science in the park development.

Revenue

$564.5k

Assets

$374.7k

Employees

EIN

82-4865787

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Patriots Jet Team Foundation

Patriots Jet Team Foundation educates and inspires youth about aviation, space, and STEM subjects by providing programs, a learning center, and scholarships.

Revenue

$309.4k

Assets

$629.6k

Employees

EIN

27-4348567

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 "A57: Science and Technology Museums" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.

San Francisco science museums

Job trends for San Francisco science museums

Sizes of science museums in San Francisco

Directory of science museums in San Francisco

The Exploratorium

Chabot Space and Science Center Foundation

CuriOdyssey

Hiller Aviation Institute

Uss Hornet Sea Aircraft and Space Museum

The Space Station Museum

The San Francisco Aeronautical Society

Wonderfest

Quest Science Center

Patriots Jet Team Foundation

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