Ohio · Nonprofit
AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM
AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM (Ohio) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,289,692 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($347,450). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $853k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Akron Childrens Museum does
Mission
To be a gathering place for children and families, where play inspires exploration, discovery, and problem solving.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Akron children's museum has maximized resources and knowledge and is increasingly being recognized as a leader and a desired partner for early childhood and elementary education by evidence of its services provided to all 1,800 akron public school kindergarteners, all summit county headstart centers, and multiple ymca afterschool programs. In 2023, acm welcomed 45,334 visitors. The museum provided 713 new memberships, served 3,540 students on field trips, served another 855 students through its mobile museum, hosted 614 head start students and held 239 birthday parties that hosted 6,743 attendees. In 2023, the museum celebrated the completion of an expansion project that included the addition of 3,000 square feet and ten new features, including a rocket exhibit, sensory room, sound studio, wind & air tube wall, two private party rooms, and a redesigned makerspace to host steam education experiences. The museum and its exhibits provide essential learning spaces, cross- cultural connections, and important foundational experiences for our youngest learners. The museum also provides economic value to the region through tourism. Removing financial barriers to acm's exhibits through…
$535,000 spent$491,251 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $535,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $117k → $99k.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 42% · 2019 26% · 2020 40% · 2021 46% · 2022 19% · 2023 37% — growing more concentrated.
“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
32% of AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
88% of AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like AKRON 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AKRON 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 AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
- AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM (Ohio) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,289,692 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($347,450). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,289,692 in grants to AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $347,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35 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