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MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM
MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM (Florida) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,356,203 to it, the largest being THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC ($1,125,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum does
Mission
Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. The museum offers interactive exhibits, programs and learning materials related to arts, culture, community and communication. Miami children's museum is dedicated to enriching the lives of all children by fostering a love of learning and enabling children to realize their highest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community.visitors of all ages are encouraged to play, learn, imagine, and create together through interactive exhibits, public programming, and outreach activities related to arts, culture, science, and the south florida community. Through these offerings, the museum served 450,000 people in fy25. The museum is home to formal educational programs including the early childhood institute (eci), a naeyc accredited preschool, and the miami children's museum charter school (mcmcs), an a-rated mdcps, which together serve 400 children daily. The museum also provides after-school programs for 360 children daily at five partner schools located in underserved communities, from goulds to miami gardens, and 105 children in after-school programming at the museum. The museum provides spring, summer, and winter camp as well as one-day camps. The museum proudly engages children of all abilities and backgrounds by providing an inclusive environment that ensures high quality, hands-on programming, such as sensory friendly saturday. For all. The museum serves children and…
$10,251,634 spent$5,984,377 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,251,634.
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 $26M to $29M (+12%).
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 27% · 2018 15% · 2019 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 29% · 2022 41% · 2023 24% · 2024 28% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Deborah Spiegelman
CEO/executive dir.
Board chair
Jeffrey Berkowitz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 28 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $709k → $629k.
9 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $1.1M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Miami Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 20% · 2019 38% · 2020 15% · 2021 19% · 2022 22% · 2023 20% — 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
47% of MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
80% of MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299k 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
MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $551k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$486k
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
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 MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Miami Children's Museum Charter Sch · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM?
- MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM (Florida) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,356,203 to it, the largest being THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC ($1,125,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $5,356,203 in grants to MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM?
- THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 85 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