Nebraska · Nonprofit
GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,195,926 to it, the largest being GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($731,062). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
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.
- Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trustlocalportfolio match
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio match
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
99% of GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $24k → $32k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’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
GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% 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 GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 34% · 2022 51% · 2023 31% — 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.
Where its funders are
62% of GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $453k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $743k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 12 funders put you typical among the 374 organizations that share them.
- Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trustlocalportfolio matchMO · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William J Nicholson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frances R Dewing Foundation 7600-Xxxxxx15480portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr Metzger Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew & Jeanine McNally Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fred & Amanda Glade FoundationlocalNE · funds 13 organizations near you
- Saint Francis Medical Center FoundationlocalAZ · funds 10 organizations near you
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 GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
3% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,195,926 to it, the largest being GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($731,062). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,195,926 in grants to GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $731,062 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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