2025-05-13T14:15:20-07:00 2024-12-31 Crosby & Kaneda CPAs LLP 548 Market St PMB 97503 San Francisco CA 94104 990 2024-01-01 943191605 Habitot Childrens Museum HABI 5106471111 1569 Solano Ave PMB 326 Berkeley CA 94707 Gina Moreland Executive Dir. 2025-05-13 true true Tierna Jensen P02447146 5108352727 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Gina Moreland 1569 Solano Ave PMB 326 Berkeley CA 94707 363643 false X www.habitot.org X 1992 CA Habitot offers hands-on exhibits and learning experiences for young children and their families. Along with outreach and inclusion programs for the most vulnerable, Habitot has welcomed over 1.5 million visitors since 1998 and influenced generations of children and parents in raising curious, creative and confident children. 6 6 38 7 0 180313 234319 80780 126703 1917 2621 0 263010 363643 0 0 242990 253750 0 55420 90960 107707 333950 361457 -70940 2186 444141 448991 8016 10680 436125 438311 X Habitots mission is to provide art and play-based experiences for young children that are safe, appropriate and enriching that help them learn and grow and to support parents and caregivers in raising curious, creative and confident children. false false 154883 113739 Temporary Museum Installation - Habitot opened a temporary space on Bay Street, Emeryville from January to December, presenting the Space Station Experience, an immersive rocket ship and mission control exhibit with embedded STEM play and learning activities through May, and the Little Town exhibit with a Firehouse, Fire Engine, and interactive burning house, a pretend play Grocery Store and Pizzeria from June to December. An expanded Infant-toddler area, Wiggle Wall climber, train table, chalk wall, Art Studio and Maker Lab were available as well. Open four days a week to the public, with after hours programs like Parents Night Out drop-offs, preschool field trips, STEM classes, and birthday party rentals, the museum welcomed over 16,700 adults and children in 2024. 83145 10000 Mobile Museum Tour - Habitot continued its Mobile Museum Tour with 9 full-day pop-up events in 6 cities in outdoor community parks, libraries, schools, and other venues across the East Bay. The most popular exhibits were presented along with art and maker stations facilitated by art and education staff. Exhibits include the Waterworks water play and discovery exhibit; Imagination Playground Blue Building Blocks; Paintable Wall; Magnetic Ball Wall; Baby Ball Pit and stations for art and maker stations. A sliding scale of $1-40 per family makes the events accessible to a wide range of projects. The Tour supported post-pandemic re-engagement of families and children in social situations, while also strengthening parent-child bonding. Additional free Arts & Crafts Days took place in Emeryville and Berkeley. Almost 2,300 parents and children attended 2024 events. 6924 Birthday Parties for Unhoused Children - Prior to the pandemic, Habitot welcomed dozens of children and families living in family shelters for their childrens birthday party at the museum, with Habitot providing a gift for the birthday child, food, drinks, a cake, and party to family shelters. This year, Habitot was able to reinstate its all-inclusive birthday parties for children experiencing homelessness in the Emeryville space. These parties included two hours of museum time for the birthday child and their guests, pizza, beverages, a personalized birthday cake, party favors for attending children and a hand-selected $25 gift for the birthday child. 2964 Habitot-at-Home and Kit-based Programs for Families - Habitot continued distribution of its STEM, art, and play-based learning kits created during the pandemic for at-home use. The kits were available for purchase and grants covered the cost of some kits distributed to low income and special needs families. Staff-led, how-to videos available through the YouTube channel were made available to guide parents in facilitating kit activities with their children, especially how to foster childrens learning of math and science concepts, language, and problem solving. In addition, Totmail e-newsletters containing instructions for art and STEM at-home activities were delivered to 4,000 households weekly with a high open rate of 30-40%. 2964 244952 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 5 0 true 38 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 6 6 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X Gina Moreland 5106471111 1569 Solano Ave PMB 326 Berkeley CA 94707 Gina Moreland Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 14880 0 0 Veronica Ortega President/Chair 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Paul Armano Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Maya Melczer Greenfield Secretary 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Wendy Muse Sinek Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Patrick Phillips Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Sundar Subramanian Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 14880 0 false false false 0 142544 91775 234319 Admissions 900099 109638 109638 Fees for service 712110 12964 12964 Rentals 900099 4101 4101 126703 2621 2621 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 363643 126703 2621 X 0 0 0 0 14880 7440 3720 3720 0 212912 142583 29608 40721 0 4848 3162 397 1289 21110 14303 3227 3580 0 0 3750 3750 0 0 0 40724 37859 1615 1250 4155 2349 494 1312 41310 28788 9213 3309 0 0 5372 5372 3222 2819 300 103 0 0 0 0 1761 1761 7413 277 7000 136 0 361457 244952 61085 55420 274837 278827 152817 155438 0 0 0 0 0 1574 1574 1500 1500 196435 188983 9213 7452 0 0 0 0 4200 4200 444141 448991 8016 10680 8016 10680 X 286125 288311 150000 150000 436125 438311 444141 448991 2186 X false false false X 299806 366708 341105 180313 234319 1422251 0 0 299806 366708 341105 180313 234319 1422251 451875 970376 844 57 1917 2621 5439 0 79 3457 3536 1431226 255896 0.67800 0.71600 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 63985 56533 7452 132450 132450 7452 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Materials for 990 prep prepared in house with independent controller and oversight by ED. Draft 990 is provided to Finance committee and signed off on by the Treasurer. 990 is posted on shared Google docs and any and all members of the Board may review and provide input/ask questions, etc. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Every January members of the Board of Directors review and sign a conflict of interest statement. New and long-term employees also sign a conflict of interest form. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a As a datapoint, Organization has purchased Fair Pay for Northern California Nonprofits: the 2016 Compensation and Benefit Survey produced by CompassPoint. Board meets in executive session annually to assess ED performance and set compensation. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b No officers compensated. No other key employees beyond ED meriting deliberations other than with the ED who hires all other core staff. Reference checks are executed for all core staff hired. 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