Charity profile · Historical source record

Madison Children's Museum

EIN 39-1383497Arts, Culture, Humanities Wisconsin Mid-sized

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Connecting children with their families, their communities and the world beyond

Madison Children's Museum (MCM) connects children with their families, their communities and the world beyond through discovery learning and creative play. The museum, founded 30 years ago, acquired a $5 million, five-story office building in 2005 through the generosity of the W. Jerome Frautschi. The museum recently completed a very successful $10 million capital campaign to renovate the building, create an accessible green roof, and install new exhibits. The new facility, which opened in August 2010, expanded the museum's capacity to serve older children and school groups in a strong interdisciplinary program that emphasizes the arts, sciences, culture, health, history, and civic engagement. It already has been ranked the fifth best children's museum in the country in Parents Magazine's March 2011 issue and has won several awards from professional organizations within the museum industry for emphasizing the use of local products, people, and processes in creating the new facility.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

75.57Overall score
out of 100

65.46Financial 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$3,138,118

Total expenses · USD$3,527,783

Program expenses

$2,271,892.25 recorded amount

64.4%

Fundraising expenses

$525,639.67 recorded amount

14.9%

Administrative expenses

$726,723.30 recorded amount

20.6%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.56 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: Deborah Gilpin
Recorded compensation: $103,266.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 2.92%

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 Madison Children's Museum
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	Madison Children's Museum (MCM) connects children with their families, their communities and the world beyond through discovery learning and creative play. The museum, founded 30 years ago, acquired a $5 million, five-story office building in 2005 through the generosity of the W. Jerome Frautschi. The museum recently completed a very successful $10 million capital campaign to renovate the building, create an accessible green roof, and install new exhibits. The new facility, which opened in August 2010, expanded the museum's capacity to serve older children and school groups in a strong interdisciplinary program that emphasizes the arts, sciences, culture, health, history, and civic engagement. It already has been ranked the fifth best children's museum in the country in Parents Magazine's March 2011 issue and has won several awards from professional organizations within the museum industry for emphasizing the use of local products, people, and processes in creating the new facility.
`ein` EIN	39-1383497
`tot_exp` Total expenses	3527783.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.20600000000000002
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.56
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.149
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.644
`fscore` Financial score	65.46
`leader` Recorded leader	Deborah Gilpin
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	103266.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0292
`motto` Tagline	Connecting children with their families, their communities and the world beyond
`name` Charity name	Madison Children's Museum
`tot_rev` Total revenue	3138118.0
`score` Overall score	75.57
`state` State code	WI
`subcategory` Subcategory	Museums
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	2271892.252
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	525639.667
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	726723.2980000001

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.