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Filing year 2024

DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC

Acton, Massachusetts·EIN 04-2741645·NTEE A520 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$4.1M
Total assets
$12.7M
Total expenses
$4.1M
Reported officers
22
Mission

TO SPARK DELIGHT IN LEARNING BY IGNITING CURIOSITY AND CREATIVITY IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS, AS THEY DISCOVER TOGETHER THE JOYS OF SCIENCE, NATURE, AND PLAY.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 4 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Chief Executive Officer
$192k
$205k
Base
$180k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$12k
Sr. Director of Development
$152k
$163k
Base
$152k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Former CEO (thru 12/2023)
former officer/director/trustee
$135k
$145k
Base
$135k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Sr. Director of the Museum Experience
highest compensated employee
$110k
$117k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 18 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Down 14%
from 2023

From $223k in 2023 to $192k in 2024.

$223k
2023
$192k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 17% in real terms$246k to $205k

Estimated with Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$4.6M
$3.9M
2023
$4.1M
$4.1M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in Massachusetts

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in Massachusetts pay their highest-earning executive a median of $75,614.

25th percentile
$24k
Median
$75,614
75th percentile
$130k
90th percentile
$293k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 197 organizations across 197 filings (2022 – 2023).

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