Texas · Nonprofit
Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC
Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,997 to it, the largest being LES AND MARY PUCKETT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ($180,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $871k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $433k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC does
Mission
The mission of the fort bend children's discovery center is to transform communities through innovative, child-centered learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The fort bend children's discovery center (fbcdc) employs credentialled educators who manage five bilingual (english/spanish) exhibit galleries and programming that changes weekly. These exhibits/programs are focused on the development of literacy and engagement in hands-on, inquiry-based investigations of science, technology, engineering, arts/design and math (I.e.,the steam disciplines). In fy 2025 fbcdc served 96,857, down 571 from the prior year. In 2025 21% of visitors received free admission via open doors free admission passes distributed to low-income families by community-based partners. At 100+ locations across fort bend county. Outcomes of museum visits are evaluated annually within a process of continuous quality improvement. Visitors mirror fort bend's diversity with an attendance that is 34% anglo, 24% african american, 22% asian american, and 20% hispanic/latino.
$867,608 spent$379,239 earned by the program91% of program spendingThe Open Doors Partner Network of over 100 community and faith-based partners in Fort Bend County helps ensure families that might have difficulty affording admission are provided Free Family Passes to visit during any time the Discovery Center is open to the public. This enables over 10% of the annual audience to visit at no cost.
$42,504 spent4% of program spendingVisitor services including facilitation of exhibits and programs, volunteers, service support, and conveniences including parking.
$41,871 spent4% of program spendingOther museum merchandise.
$15,130 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $951,983.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $1.5M (−25%).
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 9% · 2021 33% · 2022 22% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 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
Rayanne Darensbourg
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Jonathan Sloan
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $63k → $42k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC’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
Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 32% · 2018 35% · 2019 35% · 2020 43% · 2021 50% · 2022 33% · 2023 47% — 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
38% of Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
89% of Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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.
Against its field
Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Children's Museum INC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC: 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 Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC?
- Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,997 to it, the largest being LES AND MARY PUCKETT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ($180,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $432,997 in grants to Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC?
- LES AND MARY PUCKETT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 11 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