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Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc

Frost science inspires and connects people of all ages and backgrounds to enjoy science and technology, and to better understand ourselves and our world.

$45k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$35k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$34,797
Largest grant, FY2024
$34,797
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$187M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$35k0%
FY20231$30k0%
FY20221$31k0%
FY20211$26k0%
FY20205$246k40%
FY20193$199k100%
FY20178$109kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$516kArts & Culture$92kScience & Tech$46kHealth$14kEnvironment$9k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
PA
CA
MO
NM
DC
GA
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Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$251,4992n/a
University of Miami$146,22960%
Wested$118,1032n/a
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc$36,62020%
California Science Center Foundation$26,52210%
Chicago Children's Museum$23,52210%
Sciencenter Discovery Museum$14,03811%
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science$13,52210%
Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque Inc$10,15110%
American Museum of Natural History$10,02210%
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All grantees of Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$251,4992n/a
University of Miami$146,22960%
Wested$118,1032n/a
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc$36,62020%
California Science Center Foundation$26,52210%
Chicago Children's Museum$23,52210%
Sciencenter Discovery Museum$14,03811%
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science$13,52210%
Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque Inc$10,15110%
American Museum of Natural History$10,02210%
Smithsonian Institution$9,42210%
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia$8,79410%
Union Station Kansas City Inc$7,52210%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Miami: $146,229 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $36,620 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Science Center Foundation: $26,522 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Children's Museum: $23,522 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSciencenter Discovery Museum: $14,038 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science: $13,522 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetExplora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque Inc: $10,151 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $10,022 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $9,422 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: $8,794 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Station Kansas City Inc: $7,522 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 11.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc

How much does Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc give?
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $34,797, out of $44,597 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (76%), Arts & Culture (14%), Science & Tech (7%).
Who are Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ($251k), University of Miami ($146k), Wested ($118k).
Does Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc based?
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc is based in FL.

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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $35k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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