Texas · Nonprofit
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science (Texas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,956,606 to it, the largest being John P McGovern Foundation ($850,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $21M
What John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science does
Mission
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to health and wellness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
General Museum Operations - The Health Museum is an innovative learning center committed to providing an engaging informal learning experience using permanent and temporary exhibits to educate students and families on health, medicine and the life sciences.
$1,262,504 spent$436,803 earned by the program49% of program spendingThe Museum operates a science center with permanent and temporary exhibits offering an informal learning experience in health, medicine and the life sciences which include Camps, Scouts, and Academic Adventures.
$907,990 spent$314,148 earned by the program35% of program spendingSchool Field Trip Program - Teachers and students (K-12) visit The Health Museum to explore both our permanent and traveling exhibits, including dissection demonstrations, science shows and standards-based science classes.
$402,868 spent$139,385 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,573,362.
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 2021 to 2022, from $25M to $21M (−14%).
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 21% · 2022 12% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science’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. 7 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
John Arcidiacono
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $238k → $718k.
5 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $1.9M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Academy of Medicine). These are real filings, and they are not money John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science raised.
From the IRS filings of John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 40% · 2019 34% · 2020 39% · 2021 43% · 2022 46% · 2023 24% — 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
43% of John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
91% of John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $102k on record.
- Department of Justice$102k
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 John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science: 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 John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science?
- John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science (Texas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,956,606 to it, the largest being John P McGovern Foundation ($850,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $3,956,606 in grants to John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science?
- John P McGovern Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science 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.
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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 36 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