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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 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,279,703 to it, the largest being THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC ($1,125,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$12M
Revenue FY2025
83
Funders on record
$5.3M
Grants received
$29M
Net assets
50/83 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Against its field

MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.1M) Expenses 100 ($7.3M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 95 ($8.7M) Expenses 105 ($7.7M) Net assets 105 ($22M)2019 Revenue 101 ($9.2M) Expenses 109 ($8.0M) Net assets 111 ($23M)2020 Revenue 82 ($7.5M) Expenses 108 ($8.0M) Net assets 109 ($23M)2021 Revenue 65 ($5.9M) Expenses 74 ($5.5M) Net assets 111 ($23M)2022 Revenue 130 ($12M) Expenses 107 ($7.8M) Net assets 130 ($27M)2023 Revenue 119 ($11M) Expenses 131 ($9.6M) Net assets 137 ($29M)2024 Revenue 117 ($11M) Expenses 152 ($11M) Net assets 135 ($28M)2025 Revenue 135 ($12M) Expenses 161 ($12M) Net assets 138 ($29M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (161)Net assets (138)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
17
$960k
18
$1.2M
19
$457k
20
$436k
21
$4.0M
22
$1.2M
23
$509k
24
$496k
25
2.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 28 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $709k → $629k.

9 of 83 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 83 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

21%
largest funder
36%
top three
~14
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
DE
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 83 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$551k
grants $551kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 7%Fundraising 7%

Governance

39
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Miami Children's Museum Charter Sch · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,279,703 to it, the largest being THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC ($1,125,000). 50 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 83 organizations giving $5,279,703 in grants to MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM, 50 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.

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 83funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing