Alabama · Nonprofit
COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE
COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE (Alabama) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,203,165 to it, the largest being ALPHA FOUNDATION ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE has grown faster than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Morgan Countylocal
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio match
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $150k → $114k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE’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
COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 73%; 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 67% · 2018 59% · 2019 61% · 2020 41% · 2021 56% · 2022 74% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
69% of COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Morgan CountylocalAL · funds 19 organizations near you
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Museum of Natural Historyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leads Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David B Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Museums Alaska Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frederick Hammersley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pilara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: 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 COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE?
- COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE (Alabama) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,203,165 to it, the largest being ALPHA FOUNDATION ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,203,165 in grants to COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE?
- ALPHA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing