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Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum ANNUAL REPORT Fiscal Year 2020 (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020) MISSION

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Washington ElementaryWashington Jackson Elementary Backman Elementary North Star Elementary Mountain View Elementary Newman Elementary online. We partnered We online. with the Mundi Project and began our “Concerts from the Couch,” • • • • • •

STEAM Learning Lab Our Special Event Days also offered moved We online. weeklong online events and celebrated five Our After School Enrichment Program provided STEAM Education reaching 597 We teamedWe up with community partners 40 over 152 visitors from visitors July served to FebruaryWe with 152 2020 discounted and free Inclusive Sensory The school program coordinators off-site during (54) visits and as well as 317 through on-site field trips to the museum for the following Title I schools within the School District: holidays offering monthly Friday Night Concerts for the whole family! community to fulfill our mission virtually. The STEAM Learning Lab posts STEAM technology, (science, engineering, art, activities and math) on our website’s blog. Since the launch in March through June, the blog has had a total reach of 5,380 the museum through various special programming and events. Our partners helped us celebrate MLK withDay powerful songs with the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, helped us learn about bees with The Wasatch Beekeepers, showed us dances to celebrate the Hindu festival Holi with Divya’s School of and Dance, read powerful stories about families with Encircle. Thank you to those all who partnered with us and contributed to enriching our programs and experiences. Afternoons interactions touching, by exploring, and experimenting. Special educational programming focuses on sensory-friendly experiences, for which our staff creates a welcoming space dimming by the lights and sound in the museum, along with providing noise-canceling headphones, fidget toys, and weighted lap pads to those that need encourage them. We the public to come to the museum to learn about and engage with our sensory activities. Onsite Education Onsite PROGRAMS Outreach Education Outreach the museum through our Sponsored Field Trip Field program. Sponsored our through museum the advantage of this resource, impacting 77 impacting resource, this of advantage 30 classroom. aformal inside done be and home intheir found materials use could students that so created was series This separately. or together used be could that plans lesson three of Home,” at aseries Energy “Potential created, DGCM precautions, Covid-19 to due 2020 March closure the After kindergarten. year. teaches this program This by 154 seen were videos these that estimated is YouTube. 58 schools, missed the of Out through students and teachers to available it made and program 2020, the filmed March DGCM in COVID-19 beginning the to Due component. precautions learning student Time Reaction the complement to designed is chemistry, teach to need they experience and confidence the gain teachers help to designed development professional teacher Reaction, Chain Curriculum. Core State Utah the Iof Standard for content science covers and chemistry about students 5th-grade Program served 80,260 served Program trip. field one least at on come had 2020, school each February of end the By trips. field two least at on museum the to programs afterschool intheir students the bring could schools Potential Energy We hosted 200 We hosted Reaction Time Reaction Outreach 2019-2020 iSEE the Science In Education of Board year, State school Utah our partner the that so buses of cost the cover help to offered Foundation Education Lake Salt The served 1,568 served elementary school field trip groups and of the groups, 9,274 groups, the of and groups trip field school elementary served 923 served DISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN’S MUSEUM students at public and charter schools statewide. schools charter and public at students classrooms and 38,874 and classrooms classrooms and taught 17,929 taught and classrooms chose to take advantage of the new online resource. It It resource. online new the of advantage take to chose teachers and 2,315 teachers teachers and 4,058 teachers students. This program teaches teaches program This students. kindergarten students science science students kindergarten students. students. students. schools took took schools students visited visited students 4 Educational Impact NUMBERS $1,304,072 amount spent by museum on educational programming in FY20 Field Trips schools 200 Admission Fee 119 sponsored (free) districts 20 109 reduced admission ($5) 13,017 visits by school children Science Outreach Programs

291 86% 233 of educators participated of Utah public and charter Utah public & charter schools in teacher training school 5th grade students received Potential Energy programs that focus on received Reaction Time, Program, the iSEE physics 5th grade & kindergarten the iSEE Chemistry education kindergarten workshop STEAM enrichment Education Workshop

38/43 school districts served Curriculum topics taught in cooperation with local school system: Focus on STEM enrichment in cooperation with local schools, aligned with current science standards. 5 Economic Impact

10,250 331,323 =visitors children + adults served in FY20 NUMBERS 163,639 167,684 people served people served ONSITE OFFSITE

Where is our support from? Sponsored Admissions

Donated Admission Public Passes Support Earned 37% 51% 10% Field Free 12% Trips Days Private 34% 12%

5% Sensory Where does our support go? $138,405 Inclusive After- noons

Exhibits & Facilities 47% Education 53% 39%

Medallion Program 14,616 4.6 3,390 individual average member memberships members visits

Employed 72 people in FY20 Served 145,951 visitors in FY20, including 14% from out of town Serves 13,017 schoolchildren each year through school visits to the museum Admission fee: $12.50

The nonprofit arts and culture industry annually generates over $135 billion in economic activity, supports more than 4.1 million full-time jobs and returns over $22 billion in local, state, and vvvfederal tax revenues. 6 NUMBERS 7 3,966 21,603 15,000 17,920 81,463 40,142 89,542 22,693 423,296 229,863 331,000 682,468 759,363 244,757 948,911 224,369 195,773 751,629 463,865 1,459,634 1,169,409 1,258,951 1,099,648 3,155,085 (456,586) 1,715,537 1,941,419 1,258,951 3,472,821 3,929,407

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Statement of Activities Statement ofFinancial Position Financial SummaryFinancial ANNUAL DONORS 8 - capes Utah Auto Spa Utah Division of Arts & Museums Utah Jazz Utah Office of Tourism Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation Utah State Legislature – iSEE Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Zoo Hogle Utah's Foundation Verizon Vestar Visit Salt Lake VLCM Steel Wasatch CrabtreeWendy Westminster College YESCO Sego Strategies Sego Peaks Seven Smith's Food and Drug Centers, Inc. Solitude Mountain Resort Corporate SP+ State of Utah Stein Eriksen Lodge Streamworks Inc. Sugar House Distillery InstituteSundance ElectronicTAMS Recycling CheesecakeThe Factory The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Foundation Club Climbing The Front The Grand Theatre The Leonardo The Little Gym of Salt Lake City Center on Spoke The Store The The Sweet Fairy Tooth Tina Bagley Weiler Todd Golf Top Tracy Aviary Tsunami Foundation Bank U.S. Utah ArtsAlliance- Dreams - Marriner S. Eccles Foundation Mary G. Steiner Egyptian Theatre Store Megaplex Melissa Johnson Metropolitan Theatres Linton Michael Michael Stringham AndersonMichelle Minky Couture Mister Wash Car Momentum Climbing Mountain West Small Business Finance Mrs. Calls Candy Company my529 Natural History Museum of Utah Nixon Nicki Ogden Nature Center Ogden's George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park Pacific Office Automation Pacificorp Foundation CotterPam Company Beverages Pepsi Perfect Feast TheatrePioneer Company Poison Spider Bicycles Moab Utah Princess Gutierrez Ray Quinney & Nebeker Foundation ButteRed Garden RedFlower Studios Repertory Theatre Dance Rick Manning FoundationRichardson Family Badon Robyn Rocky Mountain Power Steakhouse Chris Ruth's Salt Lake Acting Company Salt Chamber Lake Salt Lake City Arts Council Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, & Parks Salt Lake Education Founda tion Salt Lake Symphony Samrat Sondhi Sanctuary Day Spa & Salon Sara Tanner SCHEELS - DISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN’S MUSEUM CHILDREN’S GATEWAY DISCOVERY Epic Brewing Company Brewing Epic Ernst & Young Rinaldi Eva Cats Fat Fell First Utah Bank Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar CentreHale Theatre Harmons Heart & Seoul Karaoke Heatherlee Corrigan WintersHeidi Henry & Leslie W. M. Eskuche Foundation Herbert I. and Elsa B. Michael Foundation In-N-Out Burger Intermountain Healthcare International Paper Isobel Bruenjes Jenney & Niven Jennifer Rogers Jennifer Wilson Jessica Taylor Jikyung Sim John and Dora Lang Charita Foundation ble Rosander Kathi Walch Katie Scott Kendra Kid to Kid Franchise Systems, Inc Kimpton Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City KUED Channel 7 Lamar Transit Laser Quest Laura Cotter Laura Rideau Lauri Schoenfeld Laurie Hopkins Lava Hot Springs Lawrence and Janet Dee T. T. Foundation DobsonLeila Lianna Turchin Loose In The Lab Inc. LivingLoveland Planet Aquarium Mark and Kathie Miller Foundation SubaruMark Miller

Doreen GarstkaDoreen Dominique Watts Dominion Energy Foundation Energy Dominion Diane PatrickDiane Dere Foundation Family Della Littrell Deer Valley Resort DDI Vantage DDI David SimmonsDavid David Grauer David Dave & Buster's Cuisine Unlimited Crystal Inn Hotel & Suites Craig England Costco Wholesale CorePower Yoga CorePower Conliegh Zolman Classic Fun Center Clark Planetarium IMAX and Theatre3D Cinemark Cindy King Chris Atkin Chick-Fil-A Cherry Hill Charlotte Bruenjes Catherine Lee Catherine Castle Foundation Carolyn Bagley Carla Lloyd California Pizza Kitchen Cactus & Tropicals Brent and Shauna Sloan Shauna and Brent Brandon Pham Boondocks Food & Fun & Food Boondocks Bohemian Brewery & Grill Beehive Insurance Agency Insurance Beehive Beans & Brews Coffee House Ballet West Anne Crawford Anna BransonAnna Andrea Miller Amy RichardsonAmy Richardson Foundation Family American Honey Producers Association American Express Centurion Bank Amazon Smile Allison White Air Comm ACE Fund Thank You Donors! Thank You OUR TEAM Janessa Zech JeffMiller Wilder Jenney Kathleen Christy Buckalew Kellie Mike Linton Chalhoub Robin ShermanRobyn (Badon) Samrat Sondhi Weiler Todd Tony Hull 444 West 100 South,444 100 West Salt Lake UT City, 84101 (801)456–5437 | WWW.DISCOVERYGATEWAY.ORG (801)456–5437

Board ofBoard Directors Tina Bagley, Board Chair Tina Bagley, BoardTim Dance, Vice Chair Committee Chair Development Sloan, Brent Goff,Shawn Board & Finance Treasurer Committee Chair Barbara Secretary Board Sloan, Adam Macklin Amy Richardson Andrea Davis Angela Krull Arbie Nersisian Arthur Douglas Barbara Sloan Bryant Krongard MangumDanny Eva Rinaldi Yocom Holly Jamie Schwarzenbach Team Executive Director Bodenlos, Kathleen Manager Senior & Accounting Finance Heath Garner, Education Manager Senior Laura Cotter, Manager Senior Philanthropy Cristi Meyer, Manager Operations Senior Hogan, Teri Chris Futral, Manager Facilities Jacob Adamson, Exhibit Designer Museum LeadershipMuseum discovery gateway children’s museum children’s