New York · Nonprofit
Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc
Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,128 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($118,350). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $417k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc does
Mission
The discovery center of the southern tier is committed to creating an environment that fosters the intellectual, physical, and emotional well-being of children through education, participatory exhibts and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The discovery center is a hands-on interactive children's museum serving the southern tier of new york and northeastern pennsylvania. The center also runs events and provides childcare. The center is given the use of the premises owned by the city of binghamton.
$1,178,211 spent$1,007,133 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,178,211.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.3M (+27%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 9% · 2024 5% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of Discovery Center of the So Tier 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. 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $37k → $80k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 of the So Tier 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
Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 71% · 2019 52% · 2020 53% · 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 63% — 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
43% of Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k 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
Discovery Center of the So Tier 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
Organizations like Discovery Center of the So Tier 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Discovery Center of the So Tier 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 Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc?
- Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,128 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($118,350). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $417,128 in grants to Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $118,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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