Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER
ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,793,493 to it, the largest being Helios Education Foundation ($2,990,250). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $47M
What Arizona Science Center does
Mission
To inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arizona Science Center impacts more than 800,000 students, families, educators and visitors across the state in its mission to inspire, educate, and engage curious minds through science. Arizona Science Center is one of the most popular cultural and educational attractions in arizona and is the only resource of its kind in the state. Arizona Science Center features a full complement of informal science programming including more than 300 hands-on exhibits, a giant screen theater, dorrance planetarium, featured exhibitions, live demonstrations, camps and workshops, adult lectures, and school services including field trips, in-class outreach programs, teacher professional development and access to our community-based maker-space, create. (continued on schedule 0)Arizona Science Center continues to be a state leader in providing informal science education experiences that have long-term impact on the future of our community. K-12 teachers, school leaders, and parents were provided access to an innovative combination of formal and informal professional development resources to enhance student achievement.Arizona Science Center's annual visitation includes 100,000 schoolchildren and…
$8,774,097 spentof which $40,000 as grants$3,692,588 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,774,097.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $44M to $49M (+12%).
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: 2021 19% · 2022 24% · 2023 35% · 2024 22% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Guy Labine
President & CEO
Board chair
Robert Miller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $430k → $1.9M.
10 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arizona Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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
ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
35% 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 ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 80% · 2019 37% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.
“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
42% of ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
64% of ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $800k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$750k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k
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 ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: 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 ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER?
- ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,793,493 to it, the largest being Helios Education Foundation ($2,990,250). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $14,793,493 in grants to ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER?
- Helios Education Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,990,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 104 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