Massachusetts · Public charity
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 relevant. We collaborate across disciplines to help people everywhere see and appreciate the science…
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $57k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $28,690
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,690
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $520M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Museum of Science funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $57k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $89k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $164k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $189k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $706k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $1.3M | 8% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $1.9M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $1.1M | 49% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $1,923,493 | 5 | 2% |
| The Clubhouse Network Inc | $856,603 | 3 | 15% |
| Edtogether Inc | $493,023 | 6 | 99% |
| Gold Crown Foundation | $284,000 | 5 | 4% |
| North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc | $218,085 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of the Hennepin County Library | $214,999 | 5 | 4% |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $210,478 | 5 | 0% |
| Arizona State University | $188,912 | 4 | n/a |
| Sciencenter Discovery Museum | $184,529 | 4 | 3% |
| Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc | $180,240 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Museum of Science supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · New York Hall of Science · Mr Metzger Family Foundation Inc · Carnegie Mellon University · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Columbus Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Museum of Science
- How much does Museum of Science give?
- Museum of Science reported 2 itemized grants totaling $56,789, out of $1,077,047 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Museum of Science fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (41%), Youth Development (26%), Education (10%).
- Who are Museum of Science's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Science Museum of Minnesota ($1.9M), The Clubhouse Network Inc ($857k), Edtogether Inc ($493k).
- Does Museum of Science fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Museum of Science?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, New York Hall of Science.
- Where is Museum of Science based?
- Museum of Science is based in MA.
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