Delaware · Nonprofit
DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (Delaware) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,757,139 to it, the largest being RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF DELAWARE ($743,817). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $505k
What Delaware Children's Museum Inc does
Mission
To inspire learning through play in an interactive environment focused science, technology, reading, engineering, arts and math.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The delaware children's museum provides stream programming in a playful learning open-ended environment to promote development of specific skills children need to ultimately become productive members of national and local workforces that require science, technology, reading, engineering, arts and math skills.
$1,497,965 spent$1,066,829 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,497,965.
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 $1.1M to $2.2M (+101%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 8% · 2020 21% · 2021 32% · 2022 7% · 2023 19% · 2024 19% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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. 8 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 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $207k → $154k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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
DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 74% · 2019 66% · 2020 34% · 2021 62% · 2022 21% · 2023 52% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
86% of DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k 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
DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $880k on record — $74k federal, $806k state.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$74k
- DE$806k
- NJ$91
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 DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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 DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (Delaware) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,757,139 to it, the largest being RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF DELAWARE ($743,817). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,757,139 in grants to DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF DELAWARE is the largest funder on record, with $743,817 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing