Maine · Nonprofit
FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC
FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,223 to it, the largest being FRANCIS M MALCOLM INSTITUTE ($104,723). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $192k
- Net assets
- $176k
What Francis Malcolm Science Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the francis malcolm science center is to provide a unique environment for learning experiences in science, nature and astronomy. Public, private, home and pre-school students, as well as student and adult groups with disabilities, may enjoy programs in our planetarium theater, as well as both indoor and outdoor settings for classes on science and nature. Public programs are offered to the community at large throughout the year, encouraging family participation in science and space exploration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The francis m malcolm science center (the "center") is the only center of its kind north of bangor, maine. The center carries on a long tradition, started by the francis m malcolm institute in 1983, of being a home to the northern-most planetarium theater in the united states. Approximately 6,000 visitors of all ages attend programs and events each year. While the general public enjoys activities such as snowshoe hikes, wreath making and learning how to make apple cider, the heart of the center's work is its outreach to aroostook county students and their teachers. Adult handicapped groups are also frequent visitors. In addition to the planetarium theater, the center offers a natural history museum and a 140+ acre outdoor nature classroom. The outdoor classroom offers an immersion into life and environmental science experiences, reinforcing its content with a unique "hands-on" discovery approach learning style.
$44,059 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,059.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $109k to $165k (+51%).
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.
80% of FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $105k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER 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
FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
74% of FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Maine
Nationally
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,223 to it, the largest being FRANCIS M MALCOLM INSTITUTE ($104,723). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $192,223 in grants to FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- FRANCIS M MALCOLM INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $104,723 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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