Colorado · Nonprofit
MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM
MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,949 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($24,795). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Montrose Childrens Museum does
Mission
Foster a learning environment by igniting imagination and fueling creativity of children and adults alike. With interactive play in a hands-on learning museum, we will inspire childrens intellect, curiosity, and a life-long love of learning. We are working to create a community-supported space where businesses share their brand and purpose through learning initiatives and play, forever connecting the children and families on the Western Slope.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Montrose Children's Museum will provide educational exhibits for children ages 0 to10 years old. These exhibits will allow children to learn in asafe space and continue to close that learning gap obtained during the pandemic. It will also be a community museum meaning that the local community and businesses will have a strong hand in creating the exhibits and meet the needs of the children visiting the museum.
$112,974 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $112,974.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $25k to $71k (+187%).
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.
41% of MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM’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
MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM.
“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
80% of MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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
MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MONTROSE CHILDRENS 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 MONTROSE CHILDRENS 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 MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
- MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,949 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($24,795). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $48,949 in grants to MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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