Charity profile · Historical source record

Boston Children's Museum

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Discover the power of play
Mission

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

89.89Overall score
out of 100
85.71Financial score
out of 100
100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$10,067,762
Total expenses · USD$10,009,528

Program expenses

$8,137,746.26 recorded amount
81.3%

Fundraising expenses

$460,438.29 recorded amount
4.6%

Administrative expenses

$1,391,324.39 recorded amount
13.9%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.11 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader
Carole Charnow
Recorded compensation
$226,900.00
Recorded compensation percentage
2.26%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

Exact source strings are retained below, including numeric precision. A blank value is marked as not reported; zero remains zero.

All 23 original fields for Boston Children's Museum
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
100.0
category
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities
description
Mission & description
Mission
ein
EIN
04-2103993
tot_exp
Total expenses
10009528.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.139
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.11
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.046
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.813
fscore
Financial score
85.71
leader
Recorded leader
Carole Charnow
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
226900.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.0226
motto
Tagline
Discover the power of play
name
Charity name
Boston Children's Museum
tot_rev
Total revenue
10067762.0
score
Overall score
89.89
state
State code
MA
subcategory
Subcategory
Museums
size
Source size label
mid
program_exp
Program expenses
8137746.2639999995
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
460438.288
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
1391324.3920000002

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.