Minnesota · Nonprofit
Judy Garland Childrens Museum
Judy Garland Childrens Museum (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,819 to it, the largest being Minnesota Humanities Center ($555,345). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $432k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $783k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Judy Garland Childrens Museum does
Mission
Educational charity
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Children's discovery museum (cdm)cdm's mission is to spark a child's joy of discovery and enrich the lives of children through fun and educational hands-on learning experiences in science, the arts, and humanities. Many local families take advantage of our economical membership to the museum, because children enjoy revisiting their favorite areas and discovering when there are new areas and new activities.
$330,948 spent$432,185 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $330,948.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.4M (+11%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 16% · 2023 11% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of Judy Garland Childrens Museum’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $163k → $80k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Judy Garland Childrens 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
Judy Garland Childrens Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 Judy Garland Childrens Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 48% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of Judy Garland Childrens Museum's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.
Against its field
Judy Garland Childrens Museum runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Judy Garland Childrens Museum
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Judy Garland Childrens 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Judy Garland Childrens Museum?
- Judy Garland Childrens Museum (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,819 to it, the largest being Minnesota Humanities Center ($555,345). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Judy Garland Childrens Museum have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $782,819 in grants to Judy Garland Childrens Museum, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Judy Garland Childrens Museum?
- Minnesota Humanities Center is the largest funder on record, with $555,345 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Judy Garland Childrens Museum find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 5 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