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FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY

FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $583,239 to it, the largest being THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ($303,394). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.4M
Revenue FY2024
15
Funders on record
$583k
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)56% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($421k) Net assets -308 ($-708437)2018 Revenue 60 ($65k) Expenses 110 ($465k) Net assets -482 ($-1108437)2019 Revenue 2801 ($3.0M) Expenses 665 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($230k)2020 Revenue 2061 ($2.2M) Expenses 523 ($2.2M) Net assets 106 ($243k)2021 Revenue 2411 ($2.6M) Expenses 618 ($2.6M) Net assets 103 ($236k)2022 Revenue 2882 ($3.1M) Expenses 652 ($2.7M) Net assets 258 ($592k)2023 Revenue 2245 ($2.4M) Expenses 486 ($2.0M) Net assets 418 ($960k)2024 Revenue 2252 ($2.4M) Expenses 589 ($2.5M) Net assets 463 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (2252)Expenses (589)Net assets (463)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 6% · 2020 20% · 2021 30% · 2022 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

45% of FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$313k
17
$400k
18
$212k
19
$14k
20
$7k
21
$356k
22
$368k
23
$58k
24
3.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $303k → $43k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $297k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Coastal Bend Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY raised.

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY’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 THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69% 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 FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY.

52%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 73% · 2022 46% · 2023 82%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

14% of FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

97% of FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NE
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

19
20
21
22
23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 15 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY

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 Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 10%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: 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 THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY?
FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $583,239 to it, the largest being THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ($303,394). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $583,239 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY?
THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $303,394 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY 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.

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 15funders 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