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DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER
DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,462 to it, the largest being Deutsch Park & Botanical Gardens Charitable Trust ($45,611). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Discovery Center Dba Fresno Discovery Center does
Mission
To be an intercity educational science center offering children a hands-on learning experience to stimulate passion, curiosity and wonder for the environment and physical sciences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hands on experiences at discovery center and school site presentations
$1,129,578 spent$1,332,028 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,129,578.
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 2022 to 2023, from $561k to $1.3M (+136%).
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: 2020 21% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Melissa Telemeco
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $57k → $1k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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
DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 81% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 84% · 2021 89% · 2022 62% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $851 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER?
- DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,462 to it, the largest being Deutsch Park & Botanical Gardens Charitable Trust ($45,611). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $96,462 in grants to DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER?
- Deutsch Park & Botanical Gardens Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $45,611 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCOVERY CENTER DBA FRESNO DISCOVERY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 8 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