Icee Success Foundation
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
To positively impact the future by integrating vital creative and innovative thinking skills with engaging learning experiences for toady's youth and adults.
- Income
- $85,825
- Spending
- $72,085
- Reserves
- 15.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 80%
- Highest pay
- $16,960, president
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (2)
- Nasa Imagine Mars Project - Provides in-school STEAM programming, based on Mars Exploration, for grades 1-8. 2024 was the 16th year of this project, which was developed and has been implemented in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. The project entails 6 sessions per student. In 2024, approximately 428 students were served at least six times in this program. They received standards-based science and art learning, in addition to standards-based higher-level thinking. These programs were funded by grants and school districts.
- Curious Museum - Curious is a Science & Arts Museum for youth and adults. Through the intersection of science and the arts, it promotes vital creative and innovative thinking skills. Although Curious was closed to the public between April and October 2024 due to relocation, 243 youth and 135 adults were served by Curious in field trips, camps, and other visits to Curious.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since September 2011.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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