New York · Nonprofit
LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,637,883 to it, the largest being ROBERT & RONI LEMLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,521,675). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Long Island Children's Museum does
Mission
Connecting all our communities' children, and those who care for them, to one another and to a life of wonder, imagination and exploration. Here, children discover their passions and their relationship to the world we share.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Two new program services in the 2024/2025 fiscal year included: 1) lullaby project where teaching artists worked with parents to write their own personal lullaby for their child. Program can be offered in a group setting or for individual parents and was delivered in partnership with social service organization and/or licm programs. 2) expanded anchor and cultural events included a new jolly jamboree for the holidays and a new cultural festival carnival: a celebration of caribbean & latin american culture.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
School groups, public programs, community programs initiatives and specialized programming [early childhood, outreach, scouts, birthday parties, theater]: see schedule o.
$2,506,073 spent52% of program spendingVisitors services program: see schedule o.
$1,543,324 spent32% of program spendingExhibits program: see schedule o.
$749,010 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,798,407.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.6M to $4.6M (+28%).
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 7% · 2018 6% · 2019 3% · 2020 14% · 2021 25% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% · 2024 16% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’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. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Scott Burman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $657k → $926k.
10 of 73 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.
From the IRS filings of LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 82% · 2019 64% · 2020 46% · 2021 62% · 2022 50% · 2023 46% — 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
56% of LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
93% of LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261k 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
LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.6M
- National Science Foundation$180k
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
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 LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 LONG 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,637,883 to it, the largest being ROBERT & RONI LEMLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,521,675). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $6,637,883 in grants to LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- ROBERT & RONI LEMLE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,521,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 73 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing