Colorado · Nonprofit
EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM
EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,948,085 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($861,280). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Eureka McConnell Science Museum does
Mission
To inspire a passion and respect for math and science in our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education: the Eureka McConnell Science Museum's "education" programs are the means by which we provide our direct steam education to elementary, middle, and high school students and their teachers. These programs include inquiry-based, hands-on extracurricular experiences (in class math tutoring, after-school steam, camps during school breaks, and field trips). Eureka provides over 95 summer steam camps on the cmu campus and overnight across colorado. These programs are a week long and reach over 2,200 students. The eureka also runs a full day universal preschool located on the new emerson school campus. Eureka also runs a half day mobile preschool that operates out of a bus and visits a mobile home village in clifton, co. Eureka offers over 10 adult traveling steam programs each year for participants from 55-95yrs old.
$2,092,070 spentof which $77,971 as grants75% of program spendingExhibits: the Eureka McConnell Science Museum provides a wide range of interactive exhibits and displays that engage students of all ages in asking questions and experiencing scientific principles in a "hands-on" manner. The exhibits are open to the public five days a week, and are available for school field trips and special groups by appointment. There are approximately 100 exhibits on the floor at any one time. Exhibits are changed and updated often by volunteers.
$408,430 spent15% of program spendingThe remainder of our educational programs consist of "events- and "community outreach." scheduled events include "family science nights", during which families from throughout the region are invited to explore the museum and to participate in hands-on activities that are designed specifically to fit the theme for the evening. These programs are intended to engage parents, children, and grandparents in various facets of science, engineering and technology. Community outreach activities include providing hands-on activities for local and regional community fairs and events and providing educational programs at local and regional schools and libraries. Many of these outreach programs are provided at no cost to the community organizations.
$270,572 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,771,072.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $5.5M to $8.3M (+53%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM’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. 1 of the last 6 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 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $177k → $322k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM’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
EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 61% · 2019 38% · 2020 56% · 2021 47% · 2022 34% · 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
57% of EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
92% of EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $429k 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.
Against its field
EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM?
- EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,948,085 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($861,280). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,948,085 in grants to EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $861,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 24 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