Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (Mississippi) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,557,079 to it, the largest being PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION ($2,845,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Mississippi Children's Museum does
Mission
We create unparalleled experiences to inspire excellence and a lifelong joy of learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mississippi's children's museum (mcm) seeks to empower and inspire our state's children, regardless of their social, educational, or economic background. The mission of mcm is to create unparalleled experiences to inspire excellence and a lifelong joy of learning. The 40,000 square foot museum in the jackson location and 25,000 square foot museum in the meridian location are designed around five primary initiatives, with correlating exhibits, programs, and outreach efforts. These initiatives include literacy, science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (steam); health and nutrition; cultural arts and mississippi heritage - the keys to helping children mature into healthy and productive adult learners.
$5,264,637 spentof which $12,155 as grants$2,161,124 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,264,637.
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 2019 to 2020, from $34M to $41M (+19%).
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 6% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of MISSISSIPPI 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. 5 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
Alicen Blanchard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $318k → $1.7M.
7 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $175k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Dominic Health Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 43% · 2019 33% · 2020 19% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 27% — 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
53% of MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
85% of MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $883k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM is better cushioned 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 MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $531k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$531k
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 MISSISSIPPI 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 3 related entities
- Mississippi Children's Museum-Merid · disregarded
- Ftb Qalicb Inc · exempt
- Mississippi Children's Museum-Merid · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSISSIPPI 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 MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (Mississippi) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,557,079 to it, the largest being PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION ($2,845,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $12,557,079 in grants to MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,845,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 61 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