Charity profile · Historical source record

Exploratorium

EIN 94-1696494Arts, Culture, Humanities California Large

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

The mission

What this organization describes

The museum of science, art, and human perception

The Exploratorium is an internationally renowned museum of science, art, and human perception. Its mission is to create a culture of learning through innovative environments, programs, and tools that help people nurture their curiosity about the world around them. The vision of the Exploratorium is to change how the world learns. Specifically, by change we mean to move individuals from passive consumption of information and other people' claims to active, personal explorers of the natural and technological worlds and themselves.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

90.09Overall score
out of 100

86.32Financial score
out of 100

97.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$74,087,793

Total expenses · USD$52,213,213

Program expenses

$45,060,002.82 recorded amount

86.3%

Fundraising expenses

$3,289,432.42 recorded amount

6.3%

Administrative expenses

$3,811,564.55 recorded amount

7.3%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.10 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Chris Flink
Recorded compensation: $270,711.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 0.51%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Exploratorium
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	97.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	The Exploratorium is an internationally renowned museum of science, art, and human perception. Its mission is to create a culture of learning through innovative environments, programs, and tools that help people nurture their curiosity about the world around them. The vision of the Exploratorium is to change how the world learns. Specifically, by change we mean to move individuals from passive consumption of information and other people' claims to active, personal explorers of the natural and technological worlds and themselves.
`ein` EIN	94-1696494
`tot_exp` Total expenses	52213213.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.073
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.1
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.063
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.863
`fscore` Financial score	86.32
`leader` Recorded leader	Chris Flink
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	270711.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0051
`motto` Tagline	The museum of science, art, and human perception
`name` Charity name	Exploratorium
`tot_rev` Total revenue	74087793.0
`score` Overall score	90.09
`state` State code	CA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Museums
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	45060002.819
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	3289432.419
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	3811564.5489999996

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 94-1696494
Source category: Arts, Culture, Humanities
Source subcategory: Museums
Recorded location: California (CA)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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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.