California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,417 to it, the largest being THE WARBURG PINCUS FOUNDATION ($7,317). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC is better cushioned than half of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Gray Foundationshared funders
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio match
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS 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
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 100% · 2021 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
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Gray Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Historical Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Federation of the Blindportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Myriad Consulting and Training Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David B Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Museum of Natural Historyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS 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 FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC?
- FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,417 to it, the largest being THE WARBURG PINCUS FOUNDATION ($7,317). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,417 in grants to FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC?
- THE WARBURG PINCUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,317 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing