New York · Nonprofit
EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,269,758 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($1,999,905). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Explore & More a Children's Museum does
Mission
Explore & more children's museum provides an environment for creative play and learning through hands-on exhibits, activities and programs that inspire creativity, curiosity and imagination
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's museum - the museum offers accessible, child-led experiences through ita operations. Designed by experts in early childhood education, the museum facilitates play-based learning that develops children socially, emotionally, cognitively, and physically. Moreover, the museum serves as a communal gathering space that encourages collaboration, cooperation, and multi-generational conversation, which contributes to social-emotional skill development regardless of background.
$2,352,420 spent$1,722,112 earned by the program92% of program spendingOcfs licensed sacc program - as a licensed office of children and family services school-age child care program, the museum offers school-age child care services for families on select school holidays and school break weeks, including summer break.
$82,650 spent$90,900 earned by the program3% of program spendingNon-ocfs programs - the museum offers educational programming for infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children on-site and offers community-based outreach programming that incorporates hands-on, play-based lessons that support new york state curriculum standards
$134,000 spent$168,398 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,569,070.
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 2018 to 2019, from $16M to $24M (+48%).
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 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 17% · 2021 29% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% · 2024 39% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Michelle Urbanczyk
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $359k.
10 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
51% 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 EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 35% · 2019 45% · 2020 41% · 2021 23% · 2022 46% · 2023 56% — 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
37% of EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
90% of EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: 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 EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,269,758 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($1,999,905). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $6,269,758 in grants to EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,999,905 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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 53 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