Dear Friend of the Sciencenter,
This year, we are redirecting the effort that is usually required for our formal Annual Report into a renewed focus on our mission: cultivating a broad community of curious, confident, critical thinkers. In a particularly challenging year, we offer our deepest appreciation to the donors who supported the Sciencenter.
What follows is a brief recap of how staff and volunteers engaged our community with interactive, hands-on science in 2020, with the support of our Board of Trustees and our donors.
• During the four months when the museum’s doors were closed, we offered live hands-on activities online using everyday materials. In this way, we reached over 1,000 families.
• In the summer, our Sciencenter camp moved online. We shipped camp materials to 114 campers from as far away as Vermont and Israel.
• In mid-July, we opened interactive, but touchless, exhibits including minigolf, our animal room, and the tide pool touch tank. And we launched free community science in Conley Park. Our community joined us to create bubbles, examine algae, explore snakes, and release trout.
• During 2020, we welcomed almost 25,000 guests through our door. Although this is much lower than our 2019 attendance of over 107,000 guests the Sciencenter team ensured that everyone’s visit was safe, fun, and interactive.
• Thanks to our diligent animal keepers we had a number of healthy babies born at the Sciencenter including a green tree python, a seahorse, and a gecko.
• With the start of school, our educators brought weekly hands-on science to a 2nd grade virtual classroom at BJM Elementary School.
• We built partnerships with rural libraries, including Newfield Public Library where visitors engineered waterwheels.
Our partnership with Head Start continued to thrive. In the fall, 117 families joined us for science events and 164 teachers participated in professional development.
• Our exhibit development and fabrication team worked on a NASA funded 1500 sq. ft. traveling exhibit, Life on the Edge that explores life in extreme environments on earth and asks guests to imagine life in our solar system and beyond.
As we look toward the future – we do so with optimism and resolve. We remain committed to working with our community to develop opportunities for families to explore, connect, and create through science.
Michelle Kortenaar, Executive Director
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2020 by the Numbers
Total Attendance: 24,538
3,634 visits through access programs
12,129 visits by members
8,775 visits by general admission guests Download 2020 Endowment Fund Report
Revenue*
does not include unrealized and realized gains/(losses) on investments. Revenue does include donations to the endowment.
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26% Administration Fundraising 6% 27% Earned Income 20% Donations 30% Grants 23% Endowment & Other
$2,315,703 Expenses $2,040,362 *Revenue
68% Exhibits
Programs
SC Endowment
Information for Annual Report
*Four of the endowment funds have restrictions placed on the distribution to the Sciencenter. These funds include: Cayuga County Field Trip Fund, Field Trip Fund, Morton Fund, and Sustainability Fund. The Organization has used all of the income earned on these investments for the specific purposes of each Fund.
2020 Annual Report 2020 Endowment - Annual Report Fund Summary - 2021-07-28
Endowment Value 12/31/20 Balance as of 1/1/2020 5,411,506 $ Contributions in 2020 56,577 Change in Market Value 792,532 Distribution to Sciencenter* 206,000 Balance as of 12/31/20 6,054,615 $ Fund Value as of 12/31/2020 Bloch Fund 18,203 $ Saltonstall Fund 32,482 Trautmann Fund 114,233 Morton Fund 154,365 Bassett Fund 142,965 Sustainability Fund 606,710 Cowie Fund 192,957 Connect to the Ocean Fund 77,183 New Initiatives Fund 108,056 Field Trip Fund 559,914 Cayuga County Field Trip Fund 308,730 New Visions 409,068 25th Anniv 96,581 Cottrell Family Fund 38,591 Yale Family Fund 61,303 Hutcheson Fund 92,619 Spitz Fund 829,852 General Fund 1,332,062 Board Designated Endowment 878,742 Total Endowment 6,054,615 $
2020 Donors
Richard Allen and Anke Wessels
Rick Allmendinger and Terry Jordan
Elizabeth Anderson
Anonymous
Doug Antczak and Wendy Robertson
Shivaun and Lynden Archer
Mary Archin and Dara Lee Archin
William and Caroline Arms
Mark and Judith Ashton
Gret Atkin
David and Pat Atkinson
John and Mary Baker
Caren Baldini
Christopher Barclay
Kelly Barclay
Robert Barlow
Douglas and Jessica Barnes
William and Andrea Barnett
Bill Bassett
Simon Barrette & Nancy Bussieres
Brian and Lori Bauer
David and Emily Bednarski
Fran Benedict
Jack and Nanette Blakely
Maarit and Elicia Blodgett
Timothy and Tammy Bocek
David and Joanna Bock
Mark Bodenstein
David Bouldin
David Breeden and Maria Barry
Peter and Beth Brennan
Michael Britt & Jaclyn Freeland-Britt
James and Karen Brown
Jason and Jill Browning
Clay and Kathleen Bullers
Nelson Burdick and Mary Royer
Jim and Terry Byrnes
Joseph and Rita Calvo
James and Diane Cambias
Jason and Angela Casher
Jackie and Joe Cassaniti
David and Linda Caughey
Brian Chabot & Kathy Rasmussen
Stephen and Lorraine Chase
Joseph and Eileen Choi
Suzanne Chun
Henry and Mary Louise Church
Tony and Jill Ciccone
Joseph Cleary & Madeleine Ulinski
Richard Cleary and Ann Trenk
Ronnie and Charlotte Co man
Liz and Sam Corbett
Brad and Nancy Corbitt
Lisken and James Cordes
David and Carolyn Corson
John and Ann Costello
Walt and Jean Cottrell
Fred Cowett and Diana Riesman
Brian Crandall
Mary Ellen Cummings
James Cutting & Claudia Lazzaro
Robert and Elizabeth Dalrymple
Cher and Frank Dambrosio
Nicholas and Sophia Darling
Phil Davis and Suzanne Cohen
Tom and Patty Davis
Mike and Jean Davis
Timothy Davis & Carol Critchlow
Paul and Cathy Dawson
David Delchamps
Bill and Sarah Demo
Jim Dennis and Karen Powers
Tom and Barbara Dimock
Francis and Barbara DiSalvo Jr.
Chris Domkoski and Maura Cody
Bruno Donzelli & Renata Dabrowska
Hank and Sally Dullea
Daniel and Debra Dwyer
Elizabeth Earle
Nehama Edinger
Karl and Virginia Ehemann
Jennifer Engel and Larry Young
Elizabeth Engel
Howard and Erica Evans
David Evelyn and Jennifer Weinraub
Alan and Laura Falk
Eric Farman
Jay Farmer and Amy Reading
Mary Farnsworth
Paul Feeny and Mary Berens
David Feldshuh and Martha Frommelt
David Fernandez and Elizabeth Lawson
Tom and Elizabeth Fisher-York
John and Sara Foster
Christopher Fouracre & Sarah Sernaker
Patricia Fox
Thomas and Norma Frey
John and Karen Friedeborn
William and Barbara Fry
Greg Galvin
Mackenzie Gannon
Todd and Amara Gerarden
Lawrence Gibbons and Ritchie Patterson
Hannah Gibbons-Arthur
Jim and Rhonda Gilmore
Alex Gilshteyn and Jennifer Moise
Aaron and Amy Godert
Gregory Gohn and Kathleen Kra t Gohn
Mary and Brad Grainger
David and Sally Grubb
Sol Gruner and Rosemarie Parker
George Gull and Nancy Potter
Charles Guttman and Shirley Ladd
Greg Hall and Penny Bealle
Christian and Helen Haller
Daniel Halpern-Leistner & Katie Fiorella
Bill and Kathy Halton
Steve Hand and Nancy Dytman
Ellen Harrison
Tom Hartshorne and Leslie Daniels
Marty and Susie Hatch
Haiyan He and Hepeng Jia
John and Karen Henion
William Highland & Phyllis Hewitt-Highland
Seth Hiland and Irene Alexandra Amaro
Stephanie Hilz
Melissa Hines
Nicolai and Ethna Hinrichsen
Thomas Hirasuna and Jean Hunter
Steve Ho man and Carol Teelin
Thomas and Magdalena Hohn
Jim Holman and Dorothy Buerk
Mary Honcharik
Robert and Joan Horn
Paul Houston and Barbara Lynch
Mark Hurwitz and Ingrid McWilliams
Poppy Immel
Hajime Inoue and Yiru Li
2020 Donors Report to the Community
Andrea Ippolito and Alec Macaulay
Alexandra and Daniel Jackson
John and Susan Jaquette
Georg and Lucia Jander
Ray Jayawardhana and Kathryn Simms
Jim Jenkins
Stephen and Lorraine Johnson
Greg and Ann Johnson
Neal and Kathleen Johnston
Jennine Justice
Ryan and Rebecca Kehoe
Richard Keller and Karen Hwa
Frank Kelly and Sandra Holland
Frank and Kathleen Kempf
Richard and Andrea Kiely
Irene Kiely
Bill and Carol Klepack
Judith Koch
Jane Koestler and Jim Karpinski
Donald and Dorothy Kompf
Michelle Kortenaar and Ken Rother
Dexter and Frances Kozen
Kathy Kra t
David Kreinick and Susan Blumenthal
Steve Kress and Elissa Wolfson
Arthur Kuckes and Martha Wright
Gloria Kulhawy
Constantinos Lambrou
R. Carolyn Lange
Laura Larson
John Lasseter and Rachel Wagner
Janice Lawrence
John and Ann Lemley
Lynn Leopold
Peter Lepage and Deborah O'Connor
Debbie Levin
Ilma and Gil Levine
Bruce and Claudia Lewenstein
David and Nancy Lippert
Joan Loehr
Christopher Loss and Maya Aponte
Daniel P. and Jennifer Loucks
Chris Lowe and Sarah Marcham
Nathan and Gail Lyman
Joseph and Cynthia Mannino
Steve and Heidi Marschner
Julie Martens and Andrew Moise
Peter McCracken and Jennifer Germann
Heather McDaniel and Rebecca Ne
Bob McGuire and Judy Keil
Robert and Claire McLear
Philip and Mary Lu McPheron
Joe and Janet McSweeney
Susan Mead
Mila and Warren Meeks
Sunshine Miller and Richard Ketcham
Jim Miller and Chrissie Schelhas-Miller
John Miller
Jesse Miner
Derek Moon and Olivia King
Robert Moore and Lauris McKee
Alice Moore and Robert Smith
Ruth Morton
Charles Mund
Susan Murphy
Andrew Myers and Kavita Bala
Michael and Alexandra Nolan
Wendell and Susan Norvell
Bill Nye
Michael O'Neill and Jennifer Lyons
Mindy and Brett Oakes
John Oakley and Margaret Hammond
Ryan Opila
Cal and Joan Organ
Tom Owens and Deborah Streeter
Steve Paling and Estelle McKee
Michael and Christine Pambianchi
John Parker and Tracy Stokol
Pat and Deborah Pelkey
Adam and Helen Perl
Donald Phykitt and Bonnie Norton
Sandy, Bill and Lisa Podulka
Roman Politi and Monica Wellings
Roy and Barbara Pollock
Sharmila Majumdar and Rahul Prasad
Chris Proulx
Richard and Donna Prybyl
Joyce Putnam
Mike Rahnis and Keely Maxwell
Karen Reibstein
Ayana Richardson
Roger and Arlene Richardson
Thomas Richardson
Mark Rishniw
Martha and Steve Robertson
Laurie Robinson
Eric and Margaret Robinson
Eric Rosario
James Rothenberg & Mariana Wolfner
Jean and Betty Rowley
Stephen and Susan Ruo
Mert Sabuncu and Filiz Garip
Gavin Sacks and Amanda Garris
Tracy Sadd
Nick Sagan and Clinnette Minnis Sagan
Gail and James Salk
Tacie and Peter Saltonstall
Dolores Saltzman
Nick Salvatore and Ann Sullivan
Aaron Sams
Mickie Sanders-Jauquet & Mark Jauquet
Jason Sanford and Sara Childs-Sanford
Valerie Saul
Chris Scha er and Nozomi Nishimura
Helene Schember and Terry Herter
Lynn Schlesinger
Greg Schmidt and Megan Easley
Nancy and George Schuler
David Schuller
Jennifer Schwade & Michael Goldstein
Lynnette Scofield
Rebecca Senft
John Siliciano and Rosie Mayer
Sharon Smallwood
Je rey and Suzanne Snedeker
Nelson and Gail Sobel
Seth and Maggie Soulstein
Suzanne Spitz
Natoshia Spruill
Allison and Kartik Sribarra
Mary Szymanski
Eric Taylor
Martha Taylor and Josie Yunis
Adrienne Testa and Julian Perrine
Lori and Dave Testa
Joseph and Marney Thomas
Kathleen Thomas
Bruce and Katie Thompson
Maury Tigner and Mary Berkelman
Charles Tilton and Patricia Woodworth
Michael Titlebaum and Catherine Gale
Kevin and Sharon Todd
Eric and Jill Toftegaard
Gretchen Tomik
Charlie and Nancy Trautmann
Teresa Twomey
Curt and Amanda U ord
2020 Donors Report to the Community
John and Carol Vineyard
Charles and Jane Walcott
Michael Waldman and Lisa Berki
Philip and Emily Walker
John Walsh and Katrina Rudmin
Ann Ward
Andrew Watts and Jeanette Rivera-Watt
Christopher and Beverly Way
Rodney and Mary Weaver
Michael Wesley
Michael and Catherine Whalen
Lisa and John Whitaker
Charles and Deborah Whitehead
Ben and Joanne Widom
Shawn and Donna Wilczynski
Mark and Alicia Wittink
Steven Wolf and Aija Leiponen
Amy and Steve Yale-Loehr
Gene and Jeanne Yarussi
Qi Zhang and Christopher Hamilton
Heng Zhao
Yiran Zhu and Jennifer I t
Joel and Cathy Zumo
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2020 Corporate Giving, Foundations, & Grants
$25,000+
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund #
Tompkins Trust Company
$10,000 - $24,999
Avangrid Foundation, Inc., in partnership with NYSEG*
BorgWarner Morse Systems
David R. & Patricia D. Atkinson Foundation #
New York State Education Department
The Philanthropic Fund #
Tompkins County Tourism Program
Tompkins Today and Tomorrow Fund of the Community Foundation of Tompkins County*
$5,000 - $9,999
CFCU Community Credit Union
COVID-19 Response Fund of the Community Foundation of Tompkins County*
Elmira Savings Bank
M&T Bank
Rheonix, Inc.
Sciarabba Walker & Co., LLP
Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund #
Triad Foundation*
$1,000 - $4,999
Cargill Deicing Technology
Chemung Canal Trust Company
Cornell University Foundation #
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund #
GreenStar Cooperative Market
Helen T. Howland Foundation as administered by the Community Foundation of Tompkins County*
Insero & Co. CPAs, LLP
Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County*
M. R. Metzger Family Foundation
Merrill Lynch #
Miller Mayer, LLP
Morgan Stanley #
Security Mutual Insurance
Therm, Inc.
Vector Magnetics
$1 - $999
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems ^
The Home Depot@
United Way of Tompkins County #
Linz Real Estate
IPM Laboratories, Inc.
AYCO Charitable Foundation #
U.S. Bank Wealth Management #
Network for Good
Fracture Analysis Consultants
Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce
Marvin and Annette Lee Foundation
True Insurance
Cayuga Landscape Company
IBM International Foundation
T.G. Miller, P.C.
T. Rowe Price Program for Chartiable Giving #
Lambrou Real Estate
Federal Government Grants
Environmental Protection Agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services
New York NASA Space Grant Program
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA through Arizona Science Center
NASA through Arizona State University (NISE Network)
NASA through Association of Science and Technology Centers (Universe of Learning)
NASA through Gulf of Maine Research Institute
National Science Foundation (NSF)
NSF through Cornell University
NSF through Frost Museum of Science (Move2Learn)
^ indicates matching gift
* indicates a grant award
# indicates donor-directed gift
@ indicates in-kind
2020 Corporate Donors, Foundations, & Grants Report to the Community
