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CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,510 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS ($127,451). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $577k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $286k
- Net assets
- $986k
What Children's Museum of Southeastern C does
Mission
The mission of the childrens museum is to encourage learning and spark imagination by engaging childen and all families through creative and hands on play in a safe and accessible
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide a facility and offsite programming where children and adults together will learn through hands on interaction with displays and exhibits.
$444,963 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $444,963.
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 $880k to $1.2M (+36%).
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: 2021 19% · 2022 35% · 2023 20% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C’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. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $65k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SOUTHEASTERN C’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 SOUTHEASTERN C leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 SOUTHEASTERN C.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 50% · 2021 60% · 2022 64% · 2023 58% — 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
67% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SOUTHEASTERN C holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $341k on record.
- State Aid Grants$304k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$37k
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 SOUTHEASTERN C
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C: 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 SOUTHEASTERN C?
- CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,510 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS ($127,451). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $285,510 in grants to CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C?
- THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $127,451 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHEASTERN C find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 10 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