Florida · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC (Florida) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,175,684 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,600,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Children's Museum of Tampa Inc does
Mission
We create and foster engaging, impactful play experiences for children and families to learn and thrive.the museum's vision is to be a vibrant and indispensable part of a community where everyone is included, enabled and empowered to dream and excel by creating a bright future fueled by imagination because we have invested early.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The facility reflects the mission to create a learning laboratory where children play, discover, and connect with the world around them to develop as lifelong learners and leaders. Previously named "nonprofit of the year in arts, culture, and humanities" by the tampa bay business journal, gcm is annually ranked as a top 10 children's museum in the nation. The glazer children's museum provides tampa bay with a combination of permanent and traveling exhibits, daily educational programs, and seasonal special events all professionally curated to help little learners from birth to 10 years old to play with purpose. See schedule o. In a normal year, more than 235,000 guests will explore gcm's 170 interactive exhibits within 19 themed areas and thousands more are impacted through outreach in the community. Conveniently located in downtown tampa, gcm is an integral part of the cultural corridor of museums, libraries, theaters, and performing arts centers. The facility offers 5,000 square feet of event space, 2,500 square feet of classroom space, and a 1,000 square foot rooftop terrace overlooking the picturesque riverwalk along the hillsborough river and curtis hixon park.at the glazer…
$3,288,513 spent$2,768,487 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,288,513.
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 $15M to $1.5M (−90%).
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 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 20% · 2020 46% · 2021 40% · 2022 29% · 2023 24% · 2024 13% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Cole
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Grayson Kamm
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $10k → $190k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $82k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA 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 TAMPA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 35% · 2019 42% · 2020 48% · 2021 86% · 2022 44% · 2023 53% — 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
27% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 TAMPA INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 TAMPA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$29k
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 TAMPA 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gcm Facilities Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC?
- CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC (Florida) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,175,684 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,600,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,175,684 in grants to CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 23 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