Montana · Nonprofit
Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc
Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc (Montana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,613 to it, the largest being Quantum Design Foundation ($200,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $451k
- Net assets
- $0
What Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide interactive learning experiences in science and technology that inspire creativity, innovation, and lead to real-world application.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Children's Museum of Bozeman, Inc dba Montana Science Center (MSC) provides interactive science experiences and programming for the students and families of southwest Montana. Our capabilities include interactive science exhibits, STEAMlab, a high-tech maker space, STEAM-related field trips, pre-k science literacy, and other after school programs for all ages. MSC continued its programming in 2024 to meet the after-school care needs for families and support to home school educators and students. Summer camp offerings were added to support summer childcare and learning opportunities.
$270,686 spent88% of program spendingSTEAMlab is a high-tech educational space for children ages 6 and above, including adults which offered experiential, project-based learning programs in coding, robotics, engineering, laser cutting, soldering and 2D/3D design. In 2024, STEAMlab reached more than 5,500 children and adults through scheduled programs.
$36,167 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $306,853.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $178k to $21k (−88%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Lauri Moss
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $50k → $59k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Childrens Museum of Bozeman 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
Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 84% · 2019 88% · 2020 71% · 2021 31% · 2022 33% · 2023 51% — 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
56% of Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like Childrens Museum of Bozeman 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
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 Childrens Museum of Bozeman 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 Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc?
- Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc (Montana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,613 to it, the largest being Quantum Design Foundation ($200,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $450,613 in grants to Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc?
- Quantum Design Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 18 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