CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION

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.

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 22% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 23% · 2021 29% · 2022 11% · 2023 9% · 2024 17% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $13M.

18 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $13M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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

CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

27% 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 CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION.

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 52% · 2019 27% · 2020 62% · 2021 50% · 2022 28% · 2023 39% — 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

47% of CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

82% of CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.