CMT Community Report 2024

2024 Community Report

cmt | ov by the numbers 201,885 people played, discovered and learned with the Museum

1,910 member families made 15,291 visits to the Museum

28,296 visited on free or reduced admission days

44% of those visitors were from underserved ZIP codes*

*as determined by ESRI Children's Museum Tucson | Oro Valley

financial information Revenues & Support

• • • • • • •

Functional Expenses

Contributions & Event Revenues (22%)

932,800

Admissions (13%)

564,718

Public Support (10%)

411,524

• • •

Total Expenses

2,954,043

Program Revenues (7%)

301,826

Change in Net Assets*

1,328410

In kind, Interest & Misc. (6%)

263,109

Memberships (5%)

206,404

Capital Campaign Contributions (37%)

1,602,072

Total Income

Programs and Exhibits (78%) 2,283,326 Fundraising (15%)

Management and General (7%) 216,519

22% 7%

15%

revenues 37%

6,375 people visited for free with passes

78%

13%

4,282,453

& support

454,198

10% 7% 5%

6%

expenses *Earnings after depreciation

28,903 visitors gained reduced-price access through discounted admission

$716,215 given back to the community through discounts, passes, free events, outreach and tours 2024 Community Report

FY 2024 highlights Ì Collaborated with Arizona Arts

Live, University of Arizona, Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Tucson Car Club and Galeria Mitotera to host Little Amal. Amal is an internationally celebrated 12-foot-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl. She visited Tucson as part of a 6,000-mile journey across the United States. It was an amazing opportunity to be part of this event to share unity and hope across the United States and the world.

Ì Invited by Pima County

and Pima Play to bring hands-on play every Thursday to the Pima County Historic Courthouse Courtyard. Museum outreach staff bring free, interactive STEM and arts activities for children with a focus on the Sonoran Desert.

Ì Cohosted OSIRIS-REx

Day at the Museum with Arizona Astrobiology Center to celebrate the return of the asteroid probe from Bennu.

Visitors met mission scientists, tested their landing precision, and used their imaginations to go on a cosmic adventure.

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FY 2024 highlights

Ì The Museum, in conjunction with the United

States Citizen and Immigration Services office hosted children from 14 different countries as they became U.S. Citizens. Although courtrooms are the typical setting for these events, the Museum provides a fun, joyful and memorable experience for the young participants. After the ceremony kids and families had the opportunity to play and explore the Museum.

Ì Arizona Science Center partnered with CMT to

bring a 1,000-square-foot version of The Science of Guinness World Records Exhibition to the Museum. Guests learned about amazing 15,877 record-breakers, and how bodies react, people were focus, and endure. The exhibition also reached through showcased inspirational stories, intriguing school and artifacts and engaged visitors with fun, community interactive games that inspired guests and ignited their desire to set their own outreach records.

10,363 visitors took part in bilingual school tours and group visits

7,250 children from Title I schools were provided scholarships for tours and outreach

2024 Community Report

CMOV@Tohono Chul Ì Children’s Museum Oro Valley at Tohono Chul continued

to grow and expand, adding new exhibits and making the experience even better for visitors to our satellite location.

Ì Anchored by our beloved tractor, kids can explore and play in our Ag Corner. Little farmers can plant and harvest play veggies in the planters, sit up on the tractor and hop around with bouncy farm animals.

31,274 explored and played at CMOV@TC

Ì Within the tall walls of our Fairy Garden,

curiosity takes visitors into a tiny world of whimsical play where they can create fairy worlds and go on adventures of the imagination!

Ì La Comunidad is a

community-focused area set for a party – BBQ at the play picnic area, beat a drum, then grab a sweet treat from the playful paleta cart.

Ì We continued our Chillin’ at the

We are grateful to Tohono Chul and the Town of Oro Valley for making this possible!

Chul collaboration with free programs for families all summer, where CMOV’s Nature Niños team engaged with nearly 3,000 visitors.

Children's Museum Tucson | Oro Valley

expansion updates Ì Angel Charity for

Children selected Children’s Museum Tucson as its 2024 Impact Grant Beneficiary. The Museum is slated to receive $1 million for the renovation of the new Angel Charity for Children Education Center at Children’s Museum Tucson.

Ì The new center, adjacent to the Museum, will

include new program spaces, and expand access for children from Title I schools, benefiting an additional 40,000 students in the inaugural year.

Ì With hard hats and sledge hammers, construction

kicked off with a groundbreaking at the Education Center. Angels, partners from Swaim Architects and Sundt construction, and CMT staff and board were on hand as we took the next step in our expansion plans.

Ì The new building, which will also include administrative offices, is expected to be completed in May 2025.

2024 Community Report

investors $50,000 & up Arizona Complete Health Armstrong McDonald Foundation Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation Institute of Museum and Library Services State of Arizona Ruth McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust Town of Oro Valley $20,000 - $49,999 Arizona Commission on the Arts City of Tucson Edna Gray Fiesta Bowl Charities Kinder Morgan Foundation Joseph Stanley Leeds Foundation Pima County James C. Stewart Charitable Foundation Tucson Electric Power TMC Healthcare Tucson City Council Ward 6 Office Richard and Beatrice Wiltse Trust $10,000 - $19,999 Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona Citi Country Fair White Elephant, Inc. Cox Communications Delta Dental Foundation First Things First Freeport-McMoRan Friends of the Oro Valley Public Library National Endowment for the Arts Pascua Yaqui Tribe PNC Foundation The Lester and Roberta Smith Foundation The Stocker Foundation $5,000 - $9,999 Arizona Milk Producers Fred and Christine Armstrong Foundation AZ Humanities Children's Museum Tucson | Oro Valley

Banner Health BeachFleischman Caterpillar, Inc. Cigna Desert Valley Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics Connie Hillman Family Foundation HSL Asset Management, LLC Long Realty Cares Foundation

investors $5,000 - $9,999 (con’t.)

Phil and Carol Lyons Family Foundation R & A CPAs Donald E. Ray Trust Renewal by Andersen Rodeo Dental Southwest Energy, LLC Stone Canyon Community Foundation Sundt Companies, Inc. Union Pacific Foundation Volk Company $1,000 - $4,999 Amtrak Association of Science and Technology Centers AssuredPartners Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Teresa and Buck Brown Cody and Ava Clare Cassidy Central Arizona Project Creative Machines, Inc. Desert Diamond Casino Downtown Tucson Partnership Encompass Health Flores Concepts Sally Grant and Neal Cash Hazen Family Foundation HeinfeldMeech Mike and Alison Hernandez Susie and Stan Hilkemeyer Hughes Federal Credit Union Integrated Axis Technology Group Kai Family Foundation Nicole and Eric Maneval Mercaldo Law Firm Dawn and Ron Mercaldo Mining and Minerals Education Foundation Steve and Suzanna Pangburn PICOR Charitable Foundation Rio Nuevo

Satori School Schmidt and Barton Family Fund Marc and Carrie Serra Southern Arizona Roadrunners Southwest Gas Corporation TCI Wealth Advisors Texas Instruments Tucson Federal Credit Union University of Arizona College of Science U.S. Bank Vertex Education Visit Tucson Carol Volk Walmart 3379 Walmart 3884 Walmart 6692 (Sam’s Club) Waste Management Kristen and Peter Wendler

$500 - $999 Brandy and Dinko Dujmic Robert Fischer and Kerri Strug Lisa Frank Yield Giving Evelyn Groh George and Shawna Henderson Cheryl House Kittle Design & Construction Martha Manar Adriana and David Mariñez Alison Schaffer Dev and Olivia Sethi Stefanie and Matthew Teller Gemma Thomas Amy and Brett Welander

Annual donations from July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024. Expansion donations acknowledged in Capital Campaign reports.

2024 Community Report

Mission

To provide fun, play-based, interactive, hands-on learning experiences for children and their families.

Vision

To inspire children and their families to reach their full potential through discovery, creativity and learning.

CMT is dedicated to five principals of internal organizational culture Inclusion • Accessibility • Professional Growth • Collaboration • Transparency

Leadership Team Hilary Van Alsburg Executive Director David Lopez Director of Operations

Sarah Osborne Director of Development

Teresa Truelsen Director of Marketing

Lauren Kaye Special Projects Manager

Carol Sayler Director of Finance & HR

Joel Trupiano Director of Exhibits

Board of Directors Steve Pangburn Chair Kristen Wendler Immediate Past Chair Nicole Maneval Treasurer

Gemma Thomas Secretary Cody Cassidy Member-at-Large Adam Foard Member-at-Large

Teresa Brown

Adiba Nelson

Travis Craddock

Christopher Pastore

Brandy Dujmic

Marc Serra

Mike Hernandez

Michael Shiner

Joseph Howell

Kara Snyder

Carlota Larson

Stefanie Teller

Adriana Mariñez

Ralph Verna

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