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Arizona Science Center

To inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$640kEducation$491kAnimals$255kCommunity Improvement$169kEnvironment$39kArts & Culture$14k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SARSEF SOUTHERN AZ RESEARCH SCIENCEENGINEERING FOUNDATION$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SKYLINE EDUCATION INC: $89k → 11%SCIENCE VORTEX OF VERDE VALLEY: $20k → 14%INDIAN OASIS BABOQUIVARI UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #40: $87k → 15%EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE: $78k → 15%BISBEE SCIENCE EXPLORATION & RESEARCH CENTER: $46k → 18%WHITE MOUNTAIN NATURE CENTER: $129k → 26%CHINLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $72k → 28%SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $276k → 14%CHILDREN'S CREATIVITY MUSEUM: $14k → 10%SCIENCENTER: $8k → 16%FIRST BOOK: $2k → 14%MUSEUM OF LIFE SCIENCE: $20k → 11%SARSEF SOUTHERN AZ RESEARCH SCIENCEENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $48k → 15%EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE: $50k → 15%ARIZONA REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDAITON: $73k → 18%WHITE MOUNTAIN NATURE CENTER: $50k → 26%MUSEUM OF LIFE SCIENCE: $12k → 11%SARSEF SOUTHERN AZ RESEARCH SCIENCEENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE: $26k → 15%ARIZONA REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDAITON: $40k → 18%WHITE MOUNTAIN NATURE CENTER: $48k → 26%EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE: $21k → 15%SIERRA VISTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $30k → 18%WHITE MOUNTAIN NATURE CENTER: $23k → 26%GRAHAM COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $5k → 15%ARIZONA REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDAITON: $26k → 18%WHITE MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE AND NATURE CENTER INC: $5k → 26%EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE: $391 → 15%SIERRA VISTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$995k · 8 repeat orgs$613k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$995k
$613k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+15%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WM
    WHITE MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE & NATURE CE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $255k · revenue +14% · 61% of their budget
  • AR
    ARIZONA REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $139k · revenue +11%
  • SA
    Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $88k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SM
    SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $276k · revenue +58%
  • SE
    SKYLINE EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $89k · revenue +11%
  • IO
    INDIAN OASIS BABOQUIVARI UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #40
    one grant, 2023 · $87k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Connecting Stem Kids With the Future Inc
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3
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
4
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
5
Arizona Science Center

To inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.

Arts & Culture
6
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
7
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Science

The mission of the museum of science is to inspire a lifelong love of science in everyone. through exhibits, curricula, programs, and events, both live and virtual, we aim to make science and scientific thinking accessible, engaging, and…

Arts & Culture
9
The New Childrens Museum

The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…

Arts & Culture
10
Cook Museum of Natural Science
Arts & Culture
11
Discovery World Ltd

Discovery World educates, motivates,mobilizes and inspires the innovators and entrepreneurs of the 21st century. We connect innovation, science, and technology with exploration, environment, and our Great Lakes freshwater resources through…

Education
12
Community Resources for Science

CRS empowers teachers and STEM professionals serving schools in historically marginalized communities to activate TK-8 students curiosity about the world, foster critical thinking, and inspire children to imagine future career pathways.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sciencenter Discovery Museum; the most unlike its peers is White Mountain Wildlife & Nature Ce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE: $180,708 · OtherEASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGEARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $143,259 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYCITY OF COTTONWOODVERDE VALLEY RIC: $121,661 · OtherCITY OF COTTONWOODVERDE VALLEY RICINDIAN OASIS BABOQUIVARI UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #40: $86,505 · OtherINDIAN OASIS BABOQUIVARI UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT …CHINLE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $71,876 · OtherCHINLE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTBISBEE SCIENCE EXPLORATION & RESEARCH CENTER: $45,550 · OtherBISBEE SCIENCE EXPLORATION & RESEARCH CENTERSKY ISLANDS REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $35,088 · Other+1 more: $20,000 · OtherSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $275,872 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNE…NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCE INC: $32,035 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM O…Childrens Creativity Museum: $14,083 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $7,970 · Arts & CultureWHITE MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE & NATURE CE: $255,479 · AnimalsWHITE MOUNTAIN WIL…SKYLINE EDUCATION INC: $88,892 · EducationSKYLINE EDUC…Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $88,192 · EducationSouthern AZ …+1 more: $2,360 · EducationARIZONA REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $138,977 · Community ImprovementARIZONA R…
Other$704,647Arts & Culture$329,960Animals$255,479Education$179,444Community Improvement$138,977

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $275,872 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWHITE MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE & NATURE CE: $255,479 over 5y, 61% of budgetARIZONA REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $138,977 over 3y, 10% of budgetSKYLINE EDUCATION INC: $88,892 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $88,192 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSKY ISLANDS REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $35,088 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCE INC: $32,035 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCIENCE VORTEX OF VERDE VALLEY: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetChildrens Creativity Museum: $14,083 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSCIENCENTER DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $7,970 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $2,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arizona Science Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arizona Science Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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