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ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM

ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,277 to it, the largest being LANE ARTS COUNCIL ($31,644). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$471k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$165k
Net assets
$137k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Adventure Childrens Museum does

Mission

To help grow inquisitive young minds into explorers, artists, and innovators by providing an environment dedicated to the spirit of adventure and discovery in every child

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Daily operation of museum

    $405,403 spent$402,443 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $405,403.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($142k) Expenses 100 ($147k) Net assets 100 ($32k)2019 Revenue 159 ($226k) Expenses 151 ($222k) Net assets 112 ($35k)2020 Revenue 90 ($128k) Expenses 100 ($146k) Net assets 52 ($16k)2021 Revenue 127 ($180k) Expenses 114 ($167k) Net assets 94 ($29k)2022 Revenue 180 ($255k) Expenses 161 ($237k) Net assets 152 ($48k)2023 Revenue 289 ($410k) Expenses 253 ($372k) Net assets 273 ($86k)2024 Revenue 332 ($470k) Expenses 282 ($414k) Net assets 449 ($142k)2025 Revenue 333 ($471k) Expenses 324 ($476k) Net assets 434 ($137k)
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Revenue (333)Expenses (324)Net assets (434)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $90k to $148k (+65%).

$33k
$38k
$44k
$32k
$51k
$90k
$148k
$143k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’18
$4k
’19
−$19k
’20
$13k
’21
$18k
’22
$38k
’23
$56k
’24
−$5k
’25
3.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20192022202320242025
Listed88877
Joined··+1+0+0
No longer listed··110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $76 → $39k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

50% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM.

19%
largest funder
52%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 100% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

40% of ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

60% of ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR
CA
VA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.

State$6k
19
21
25
Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$6k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,277 to it, the largest being LANE ARTS COUNCIL ($31,644). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $165,277 in grants to ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
LANE ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $31,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing