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Washington · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM (Washington) is funded by 11 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $208,443 in grants to it, the largest being THE WOLLENBERG FOUNDATION ($105,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,477 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,477 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$20k from 2 funders in 2025, up from $21k and 2 in 2018.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 56% · 2020 53% · 2021 47% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% · 2024 40% · 2025 75% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
33% of CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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.
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Washington — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you typical among the 385 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is 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 11funders 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. view filing