New Hampshire · Nonprofit
MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP
MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP (New Hampshire) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $573,759 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($201,973). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $574k
- Net assets
- $183k
What McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corp does
Mission
To inspire every generation to reach for the stars, through engaging, artful, and entertaining activities that explore astronomy, aviation, earth and space science.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General admission to museum exhibit galleries. We offer a variety of stem exhibits and activities.
$1,084,081 spent100% of program spendingEducational workshops, events and outreach programs. The workshops, events and outreach programs include summer stem camps for youth, an aerospace festival for families, stem monthly homeschool workshops, and a science and engineering program for vocational-technical high school students. Outreach visits to schools and community venues such as libraries, using education tools such as a portable inflatable planetarium, telescopes and/or meteorite samples.
Planetarium shows on astronomy, space science, and earth science. Our planetarium shows are targeted to young children and other shows for the general public with subjects such as the night sky, black holes, planets and moons with water and ice, the early space race, the solar system, asteroids and comets, abenaki culture, the northern lights and aviation, and exploration of the universe.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,084,081.
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 $430k to $813k (+89%).
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 6% · 2018 8% · 2019 15% · 2020 18% · 2021 37% · 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2024 12% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP’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. 6 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
A Bartholomew Fromuth Esq
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $34k → $90k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP’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
MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 55% · 2019 88% · 2020 56% · 2021 30% · 2022 77% · 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $412k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$348k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$54k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
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 MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP
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 Hampshire
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
91%
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 MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP: 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 MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP?
- MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP (New Hampshire) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $573,759 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($201,973). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $573,759 in grants to MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $201,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 14 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