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MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE

MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,890 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($30,677). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$120k
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$61k
Grants received
$585k
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%

Against its field

MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve22.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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 ($29k) Expenses 100 ($40k) Net assets 100 ($437k)2019 Revenue 279 ($82k) Expenses 195 ($78k) Net assets 99 ($434k)2020 Revenue 377 ($110k) Expenses 230 ($92k) Net assets 103 ($452k)2021 Revenue 424 ($124k) Expenses 227 ($91k) Net assets 111 ($485k)2022 Revenue 417 ($122k) Expenses 290 ($116k) Net assets 112 ($492k)2023 Revenue 633 ($185k) Expenses 256 ($103k) Net assets 131 ($574k)2024 Revenue 411 ($120k) Expenses 273 ($109k) Net assets 134 ($585k)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (411)Expenses (273)Net assets (134)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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 35% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

77% of MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
17
$3k
19
$18k
20
$33k
21
$6k
22
$82k
23
$11k
24
23
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $19 → $30k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)51% 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 MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE’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

MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

51% 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 MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

51% of MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

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.

Organizations like MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE

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 Missouri

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 4%Fundraising 6%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE: 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 MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE?
MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,890 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($30,677). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $60,890 in grants to MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,677 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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