North Carolina · Nonprofit
GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,182,739 to it, the largest being KERMIT G PHILLIPS II CHARITABLE TRUST AKA PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC is better cushioned than half of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- United Way of Greater Greensboro Incshared funderslocal
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio match
- Mr Metzger Family Foundation 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.
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: 2017 8% · 2018 17% · 2019 9% · 2020 21% · 2021 27% · 2022 10% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $249k → $231k.
9 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $1.6M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
26% 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 GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 59% · 2019 55% · 2020 30% · 2021 34% · 2022 15% · 2023 23% — 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
46% of GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
80% of GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k 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.
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 47 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater Greensboro Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr Metzger Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frances R Dewing Foundation 7600-Xxxxxx15480portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Anonymous Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you
- High Point Community FoundationlocalNC · funds 61 organizations near you
- Guilford County Partnership for Children InclocalNC · funds 33 organizations near you
- A Simple Gesture - Greensboro InclocalNC · funds 37 organizations near you
- Weaver Foundation InclocalNC · funds 62 organizations near you
- Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health FoundationlocalNC · funds 62 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 GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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 GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,182,739 to it, the largest being KERMIT G PHILLIPS II CHARITABLE TRUST AKA PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $2,182,739 in grants to GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- KERMIT G PHILLIPS II CHARITABLE TRUST AKA PHILLIPS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 47funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing