Oklahoma · Nonprofit
MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,780 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($6,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $665k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Medicine Park Museum of Natural Science Inc does
Mission
To build and operate a living museum which will benefit the areas educational and scientific communities as well as provide eduation opportunities for all residents of, and visitors to, Southwest Oklahoma.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To operate a museum and aquarium primarily emphasizing animals, fishes and nature native to Southwest Oklahoma with an emphasis on educating area school students and scientific communities, as well as the general public.
$538,902 spent$535,849 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $538,902.
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 $1.6M to $1.5M (−8%).
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: 2020 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
C Rainette Rowland
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $88.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC’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
MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 89% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $480 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC has grown faster 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 MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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 MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE 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 MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC?
- MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,780 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($6,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,780 in grants to MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDICINE PARK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 3 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