New York · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN (New York) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,006,778 to it, the largest being THE LAURIE M TISCH FOUNDATION INC ($22,045,116). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 160
- Grants received
- $79M
- Net assets
- $135M
What Children's Museum of Manhattan does
Mission
To be the stewards of early childhood and to help all our youngest citizens grow and develop into their best selves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Children's Museum of Manhattan (cmom) welcomed over 228,000 people in fiscal year 2025, with 38,000 of these visitors enjoying free admissions. Cmom houses five permanent exhibitions designed to promote executive functions and social-emotional skills in young children and teach parents about their role in early childhood development. These exhibitions were activated with close to 500 public programs offered on a drop-in basis throughout the galleries. Programs focused on arts, world culture, stem, and literacy. Partnerships with nyc public schools allowed children with disabilities the chance to explore the museum at their own pace while it is closed to the public. Cmom also partnered with homeless shelters, including those serving families seeking asylum, to hold workshops for parents and children and invite them to the museum for private workshops and time to explore. The partnerships also included the installation of museum-quality mini exhibits (called learning hubs) in shelter community rooms enabling residents to continue learning and playing even when unable to visit the museum itself. Cmom also partnered with the nyc department of correction to provide programs for…
$5,609,694 spent$1,789,693 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,609,694.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.6M to $80M (+1122%).
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 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 13% · 2021 31% · 2022 10% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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
Dava Schub
CEO and director
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 14 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $938k → $17M.
20 of 160 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 160 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
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
40% 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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 74% · 2019 43% · 2020 38% · 2021 20% · 2022 70% · 2023 57% — 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
38% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
75% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN'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. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $263k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$248k
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: 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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN?
- CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN (New York) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,006,778 to it, the largest being THE LAURIE M TISCH FOUNDATION INC ($22,045,116). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN have?
- IRS filings report 160 organizations giving $79,006,778 in grants to CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN?
- THE LAURIE M TISCH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,045,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 160 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