Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,566 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY CLINCH-POWELL VALLEY INC ($85,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $621k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Children's Museum of Oak Ridge Inc does
Mission
The children's museum of oak ridge is organized to offer cultural experiences in the arts and humanities to all ages and backgrounds through the establishment and operation of a youth and family museum. The major emphasis of the museum shall be the study and appreciation of the visual arts and performing arts and the collection and preservation of cultural artifacts indigenous to the appalachian region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educational programs of the museum including tours, classes, traveling exhibits, and after school programs.
$483,991 spent$221,913 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $483,991.
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 $1.5M to $1.7M (+13%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 21% · 2021 13% · 2023 11% · 2024 20% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $19k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 OAK RIDGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 OAK RIDGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 OAK RIDGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 55% · 2019 86% · 2020 52% · 2021 82% · 2022 94% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 OAK RIDGE INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC
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 Tennessee
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
87%
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 OAK RIDGE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC?
- CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,566 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY CLINCH-POWELL VALLEY INC ($85,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $141,566 in grants to CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC?
- UNITED WAY CLINCH-POWELL VALLEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Children's Museum of Oak Ridge →
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 6 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