EIN 94-3153591

Imagine Children's Museum

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
74
Year formed
1991
Most recent tax filings
2023-12-01
NTEE code, primary
Description
Imagine Childrens Museum enriches children's lives through playful learning opportunities, including hands-on exhibits, interactive programs, activities, special events, and outreach programming. The museum inspires a love of learning and promotes growth in the community. In 2022, Imagine's expansion opened to the public and joined the first floor with existing exhibits. Visitors can now explore woodlands adventures in the new space.
Total revenues
$5,269,725
2023
Total expenses
$4,650,765
2023
Total assets
$37,611,618
2023
Num. employees
74
2023

Program areas at Imagine Children's Museum

Imagine Children's Museum creates playful learning opportunities through hands-on, interactive exhibits, programs, activities, special events, and outreach programming. Imagine is a community resource that inspires a love of learning and promotes family wellbeing. Imagine Children's Museum is more than a place. As the word implies, "Imagine" is a vision, a sense of possibility and a source of hope. For children 12 and under and their families, Imagine is a cornerstone of healthy, social/emotional and cognitive development through playful learning opportunities. In 2023 Imagine served more than 293,000 children and families from throughout the state and the nation. Of these, over 79,000 people visited the Museum for free, or through reduced admission, reflecting a commitment to ensuring that services are accessible to everyone regardless of family structure, ethnicity, gender, education or socioeconomic status. Imagine is filled with three stories of immersive exhibit areas where children ages 1 - 12 and their families and caregivers can play together in a safe, fun, enriching learning environment. Imagine also offers programs, classes and outreach services that deliver purposeful play to children, schools, and families in snohomish county. Each exhibit and program is designed to promote a child's social/emotional skills and physical abilities through hands-on exploration, discovery, and imaginative play; nurture family engagement; and foster educational enrichment in science, technology, reading, engineering, art and math (s.t.r.e.a.m.). Imagine partners with community members, school districts, childcare centers, social service providers and other nonprofits to build a strong network of support for children and families in snohomish county. Through these collaborations Imagine works to address a scope of community needs. Imagine is unique in that it offers an environment in which children and families can learn and play together in a creative, informal setting. A few of our many programs include: free access times provide free access to the community; celebrate our world, a cultural awareness program; toothapolooza, an annual event that teaches families about the importance of oral health; Museum on the go enrichment programs; afterschool science clubs that provide educational enrichment and emotional support and guidance. Imagine Children's Museum is a member of and has earned accreditation from the american alliance of museums. This accreditation is a testament to imagines commitment to excellence. Since opening the doors of its existing facility in 2004, Imagine has served more than 3 million.
Visitors encounter the woodlands adventures gallery, which includes a walk-through tree inspired by the historic snohomish bicycle tree. Children use their imaginations to camp, fish, boat, observe local wildlife and take on the role of veterinarians in the wildlife animal rescue, rehabilitating animals for release back into the wild. A climb from the forest floor leads to adventures in the woodlands canopy where children navigate bridges and passages in the treetops. Lookout stations provide climbers with chances to spot local wildlife. On the second floor, in the puget sound ecosystem gallery kids become marine ecologists exploring an intertidal aquarium, watershed table and real gray whale bones. They get to use the engineering design process to solve challenges in our engineer it gallery. Outside this gallery is a life-size crane cab "high above the streets below" where they will learn what its like to operate a crane. In the worldwide distribution gallery, packages come and go on conveyance systems and children learn what it takes to get a package from Imagine to anywhere in the world, selecting destinations and determining the most efficient mode of transportation. In Imagine's tinker shop and art hangout, children have the freedom to create and construct. The import, export, our port gallery features everett's international water port, highlighting a 20-ft. tugboat. On the third floor is the multi-purpose auditorium that hosts cultural performances and pop-up festivals and also serves as an eating space and houses divy's food truck.

Who funds Imagine Children's Museum

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
The Sunderland FoundationMuseum Expansion Project$2,500,000
November Thanksgiving FoundationCapital Campaign$500,000
M J Murdock Charitable TrustFacility Expansion$500,000
...and 20 more grants received totalling $4,112,564

Personnel at Imagine Children's Museum

NameTitleCompensation
Nancy JohnsonChief Executive Officer$193,700
Tia WinchChief Financial Officer$122,250
Gretchen Wilson-PrangleyChief Impact Officer$117,083
Clay WertheimerPresident$0
Sarah BuhlBoard Member$0
...and 6 more key personnel

Financials for Imagine Children's Museum

RevenuesFYE 12/2023
Total grants, contributions, etc.$1,149,749
Program services$3,379,935
Investment income and dividends$442,395
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$0
Net income from fundraising events$26,540
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$214,723
Miscellaneous revenues$56,383
Total revenues$5,269,725

Form 990s for Imagine Children's Museum

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2023-122024-05-14990View PDF
2022-122023-05-11990View PDF
2021-122022-11-09990View PDF
2020-122021-07-13990View PDF
2019-122020-08-19990View PDF
...and 10 more Form 990s

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The Children's Museum of DenverDenver, CO$11,680,088
Boston Children's MuseumBoston, MA$9,481,204
Children's MuseumWest Hartford, CT$2,534,999
Miami Children's MuseumMiami, FL$10,661,313
Children's Museum Tucson and Oro ValleyTucson, AZ$2,795,252
Minnesota Children's MuseumSaint Paul, MN$9,787,249
Children's Discovery Museum of San JoseSan Jose, CA$6,085,138
Please Touch MuseumPhiladelphia, PA$12,855,902
Port Discovery Children's MuseumBaltimore, MD$7,174,469
Hands on Children's MuseumOlympia, WA$5,919,829
Data update history
August 24, 2024
Received grants
Identified 7 new grant, including a grant for $500,000 from November Thanksgiving Foundation
August 20, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2023
August 10, 2024
Updated personnel
Identified 1 new personnel
May 18, 2024
Received grants
Identified 3 new grant, including a grant for $25,000 from Anduin Foundation
April 23, 2024
Updated personnel
Identified 5 new personnel
Nonprofit Types
Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsMuseumsCharities
Issues
Arts, cultural, and humanitiesChildren
Characteristics
MembershipsLobbyingFundraising eventsReceives government fundingEndowed supportCommunity engagement / volunteeringTax deductible donationsAccepts online donations
General information
Address
1502 Wall St
Everett, WA 98201
Metro area
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
County
Snohomish County, WA
Website URL
imaginecm.org/ 
Phone
(425) 258-1006
Facebook page
ImagineChildrensMuseum 
IRS details
EIN
94-3153591
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1991
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
A52: Childrens Museums
NAICS code, primary
7121: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
Parent/child status
Independent
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