Florida · Nonprofit
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC (Florida) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,037,377 to it, the largest being NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ($2,226,185). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Golisano Children's Museum of Naples Inc does
Mission
Organization's mission is to provide an exciting, inspiring environment where children and their families play, learn, and dream together. C'mon is a brain-building powerhouse fueled by steam (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities and experiences. We feed hungry young minds with the building blocks of success called the executive function skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The golisano children's museum of naples (c'mon) provides programs and interactive exhibits to make learning come alive by providing experiences that are an extension of classroom or family life. All educations programs and interactive exhibits support next generation sunshine state standards, the common core curriculum, and local curriculum guidelines, and are designed to help children build vocabulary, develop background knowledge, and spark curiosity. A variety of formats for educational programs are available including self-guided experiences, included with admission programs, fee-based programs, and grant-funded programs.
$2,447,648 spent$1,310,354 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe organization is preparing to launch an early learning center in fiscal year 2027 through renovation of existing facility space. The program is expected to further the organizations educational mission. The early learning center will provide play-based educational programming for children ages 25. The program integrates interactive learning consistent with the organization's mission.
The golisano children's museum of naples (c'mon) provides programs and interactive exhibits to make learning come alive by providing experiences that are an extension of classroom or family life. All educations programs and interactive exhibits support next generation sunshine state standards, the common core curriculum, and local curriculum guidelines, and are designed to help children build vocabulary, develop background knowledge, and spark curiosity. A variety of formats for educational programs are available including self-guided experiences, included with admission programs, fee-based programs, and grant-funded programs.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,447,648.
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 2019 to 2020, from $19M to $18M (−4%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 12% · 2021 10% · 2022 12% · 2023 6% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Jonathan Foerster
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $454k → $1.1M.
10 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 50% · 2019 73% · 2020 33% · 2021 82% · 2022 31% · 2023 83% — 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
24% of GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
86% of GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $833k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES 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 GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC?
- GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC (Florida) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,037,377 to it, the largest being NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ($2,226,185). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $4,037,377 in grants to GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC?
- NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,226,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 52 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