How much does Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc give?

Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc reported 19 itemized grants totaling $282,682, out of $375,044 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 98 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (52%), Arts & Culture (22%), Science & Tech (11%).

Who are Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon State University Foundation ($127k), C Williams Rush LLC ($110k), National Girls Collaborative ($100k).

Does Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Association of Children's Museums Inc, Mr Metzger Family Foundation Inc, Ibm International Foundation.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc

The association of science-technology centers (astc) is a professional membership organization with a vision of increased understanding of-and engagement with-science and technology among all people and a mission to champion and support science and technology centers and museums. Founded in 1973, astc champions and supports more than 500…

$375k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 19
Itemized grants FY2024: 32
Organizations funded FY2022: 59%
First-time grantees FY2022

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Itemized, FY2024: $283k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $11,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $57,145
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 98; FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024: 12
Total assets, FY2024: $10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 59% of the organizations Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	19	$283k	47%
FY2022	32	$356k	59%
FY2021	98	$2.0M	92%
FY2020	23	$282k	96%
FY2018	5	$75k	100%
FY2017	4	$30k	n/a

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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 2024.

Health$1.6MArts & Culture$664kScience & Tech$334kEducation$264kYouth Development$111kEnvironment$39kAnimals$23kInternational$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oregon State University Foundation	$126,961	3	0%
C Williams Rush LLC	$110,000	1	n/a
National Girls Collaborative	$100,000	1	9%
Discovery Children's Museum	$86,181	1	2%
Kansas City Public Library	$79,935	1	n/a
Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque Inc	$77,616	4	1%
Carnegie Institute	$67,500	2	0%
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc	$62,118	1	0%
The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc	$59,600	1	6%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$57,833	2	n/a

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All grantees of Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oregon State University Foundation	$126,961	3	0%
C Williams Rush LLC	$110,000	1	n/a
National Girls Collaborative	$100,000	1	9%
Discovery Children's Museum	$86,181	1	2%
Kansas City Public Library	$79,935	1	n/a
Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque Inc	$77,616	4	1%
Carnegie Institute	$67,500	2	0%
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc	$62,118	1	0%
The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc	$59,600	1	6%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$57,833	2	n/a
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc	$57,145	1	0%
Augusta Library of the Young Mens Library Assoc	$55,569	1	n/a
The Discovery Museum Inc	$53,000	1	5%
Providence Children's Museum	$52,279	1	2%
Quapaw Nation of Oklahoma	$49,243	1	n/a
American Museum of Natural History	$49,223	1	0%
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation	$40,970	2	0%
Arizona Science Center	$40,700	3	0%
Public Library of MTV - Knox	$37,852	1	n/a
San Antonio Children's Museum	$33,406	1	0%
Orlando Science Centerinc	$32,200	3	0%
Hyrum City Museum	$32,000	1	n/a
Childrens Museum Corporation of Rutherford County Inc	$31,110	1	1%
Sciencenter Discovery Museum	$31,055	2	1%
Connecticut Science Center Inc	$31,000	3	0%
Cable Natural History Museum Inc	$30,587	1	5%
Witte Museum	$30,318	1	0%
Richland Library	$28,920	1	n/a
Pulaski County Public Library	$28,051	1	n/a
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry	$27,191	1	0%
The Pensacola Mess Hall Inc	$26,800	3	3%
Museum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc	$26,000	2	1%
Children's Museum of Nw Arkansas	$24,605	1	1%
Austin Children's Museum	$24,168	1	1%
Museum of Science	$23,500	2	0%
City of Takoma Park	$22,993	1	n/a
South Dakota Discovery Center	$22,773	2	3%
McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM	$22,280	2	1%
Great Lakes Museum of Science Environment and Technology	$22,220	2	0%
Tucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson	$21,100	2	0%
The Works	$21,075	2	1%
Catawba Science Center Inc	$21,000	2	1%
California Academy of Sciences	$21,000	1	0%
Trickster Art Gallery	$20,000	1	3%
National Blues Museum	$20,000	1	2%
Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums	$20,000	1	2%
The University of Montana	$19,999	1	n/a
Alaska Library Network	$19,536	1	1%
Science Museum Oklahoma Inc	$19,203	1	0%
Dayton Society of Natural History	$18,700	1	0%
Discovery Gateway Children's Museum	$18,680	1	1%
Discovery Museum Inc	$18,000	2	0%
Ecoexploratorio Inc	$18,000	2	1%
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum	$17,689	1	1%
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corp	$17,678	2	2%
Springfield Museums Corporation	$17,285	2	0%
Long Island Children's Museum	$17,000	1	0%
Reuben H Fleet Science Center	$17,000	2	0%
The Tech Interactive	$17,000	1	0%
Liberty Science Center	$17,000	1	0%
Georgia Museums Inc	$17,000	1	0%
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indi	$16,900	1	n/a
Virginia Nottoway Indian Circle and Square Foundation Incorporated	$16,200	1	n/a
Eugene Science Center	$15,500	1	3%
Paleontological Research Institution	$15,375	1	1%
The North Carolina Children's Museum	$15,050	2	1%
MUSKOGEE ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC DBA Muskogee STEAM Center	$15,000	1	n/a
The Bakken	$15,000	1	1%
Western Oregon University	$14,889	1	n/a
Sci-Tech Discovery Center Inc	$14,700	2	2%
Ellerbee Creek Watershed Association	$14,500	1	2%
Jackson County Library District	$13,000	1	n/a
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc	$12,525	1	0%
Worcester Natural History Society Inc	$11,730	1	1%
Gwinnett County Public Library	$11,447	1	n/a
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History	$11,000	1	1%
Fernbank Inc	$11,000	1	0%
Manned Space Flight Education Foundation Inc	$11,000	1	0%
Long Island Explorium	$11,000	1	n/a
Putnam Museum and Science Center	$11,000	1	0%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc	$11,000	1	0%
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History	$10,500	1	0%
Hands-On Science Center Inc	$10,500	1	4%
The Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum	$10,500	1	0%
International College of Surgeons	$10,500	1	2%
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc	$10,500	1	1%
The University of Montana Foundation	$10,496	1	0%
Explorationworks Inc	$10,063	1	1%
City of Glendale	$10,000	1	n/a
Springfield Cultural Partnership Inc Attn Karen Finn	$10,000	1	4%
Calaboose African American History Museum	$10,000	1	n/a
Basalt Regional Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Lehigh University	$10,000	1	0%
Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Childrens Maritime Museum at Port Jefferson dba Long Island Explorium	$10,000	1	3%
Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum of San Diego Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Franklin Institute	$10,000	1	0%
Polynesian Association of Alaska Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Pike County Public Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati Museum Center	$10,000	1	0%
De Ette Holden Cummer Museum Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Redhawk Indian Arts Council Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Healy Lake Trad Council	$10,000	1	n/a
Makah Cultural and Research Center	$9,998	1	1%
Ihanktonwan Community College	$9,660	1	1%
Stark County Historical Society	$9,572	1	1%
Grand Rapids Children's Museum	$9,550	1	1%
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science	$9,500	1	0%
Science Museum of Virginia Foundation Inc	$9,182	1	0%
Discovery Center of Springfield Inc	$9,048	1	n/a
The Neville Public Museum Foundation Inc	$8,700	1	1%
Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center	$8,700	1	0%
Cape Fear Museum Associates Inc	$8,600	1	4%
Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc	$8,500	1	2%
Science Museum of Minnesota	$8,300	1	0%
Bishop Museum	$8,100	1	0%
New York Hall of Science	$8,100	1	0%
California Science Center Foundation	$8,100	1	0%
TREE House Childrens Museum	$8,000	1	7%
Lynn Meadows Discovery Center	$7,945	1	1%
Mexican Cultural Center	$7,800	1	7%
Maine Discovery Museum	$7,500	1	1%
Asheville Museum of Science	$7,500	1	2%
Earlham College Inc	$7,436	1	0%
Imagine Children's Museum	$7,250	1	0%
Central Arkansas Library	$7,200	1	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$7,000	1	n/a
Baylor University	$7,000	1	0%
Michigan Science Center	$7,000	1	0%
Irish American Heritage Museum	$6,970	1	5%
Museum of Science & Industry Inc	$6,950	1	0%
Olivewoods Gardens & Learning Center Inc	$6,950	1	0%
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center	$6,878	1	0%
The Kentucky Science Center Inc	$6,450	1	0%
Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation	$6,300	1	0%
East Meadow Public Library	$6,000	1	n/a
School District of la Crosse	$6,000	1	n/a
The Dental Health Theatre Inc	$6,000	1	2%
The Imagination Station	$6,000	1	n/a
Children's Discovery Museum of Cape Cod Inc	$6,000	1	1%
Greensburg Hempfield Area Library	$6,000	1	0%
Centro Criollo de Ciencias y Technologia	$6,000	1	1%
The Childrens Museum of Oswego	$6,000	1	1%
Exploration Place Inc	$6,000	1	0%
The Virgin Island Childrens Museum	$6,000	1	1%
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts	$5,500	1	0%
Children's Museum of Tampa Inc	$5,279	1	0%
Children's Museum Foundation Corporation	$5,220	1	1%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 120.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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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.

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About Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc

How much does Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc give?: Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc reported 19 itemized grants totaling $282,682, out of $375,044 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 98 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (52%), Arts & Culture (22%), Science & Tech (11%).
Who are Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon State University Foundation ($127k), C Williams Rush LLC ($110k), National Girls Collaborative ($100k).
Does Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2022, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Association of Children's Museums Inc, Mr Metzger Family Foundation Inc, Ibm International Foundation.
Where is Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc based?: Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc is based in DC.