New York · Nonprofit
BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,249,154 to it, the largest being Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc ($480,500). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $162k
What Bronx Children's Museum does
Mission
Bronx Children's Museum's mission is to foster curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love of learning for children and families regardless of background. We provide a gateway for more than 100,000 children annually to arts, culture, and education through interactive and enriching steam experiences. Through community-driven programs and partnerships, we exhibit possibilities, illuminate pathways, and celebrate diverse cultures to make the magic of childhood come alive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Museum educators operated 8 programs including 2 after school programs (little friends of the museum, green arts), 2 in-school program (nature of the bronx and dream big after school), and 1 public arts programs (studio saturdays).
$1,787,013 spent$161,291 earned by the program100% of program spendingNature of the bronx - the museum provided in-school steam programming under the umbrella of nature of the bronx. The program was provided to 14 schools and 820 children. The program consisted in-person progams with bxcm educators, supply boxes of materials for each participating teacher and student, and a field trip to a bronx waterway.
The museum provided outdoor festivals through out the bronx bringing our arts programs to street fairs and parks in the bronx
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,787,013.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $384k (−79%).
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: 2017 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 34% · 2021 34% · 2022 19% · 2023 25% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Denise Adusei
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 19 funders, grant income rose $262k → $465k.
9 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 31% · 2019 32% · 2020 21% · 2021 29% · 2022 16% · 2023 22% — 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
40% of BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
67% of BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $484k 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.
Against its field
BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM has grown faster than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $130k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$130k
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 BRONX CHILDREN'S 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kids Powerhouse Discovery LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRONX CHILDREN'S 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 BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,249,154 to it, the largest being Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc ($480,500). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $4,249,154 in grants to BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $480,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 66 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing