California · Nonprofit
MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION
MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,282,678 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,301,220). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Moxi the Wolf Museum of Exploration Innovation does
Mission
To ignite learning through interactive experiences in science and creativity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Education moxis education department is a creative, collaborativeenvironment where staff members innovate new ways to learn. Throughplayful interactions with our hands-on, minds-on exhibits, moxi guestsexplore, think, and design creatively, forming their own questions anddiscovering their own answers. The museum offers programs for all agesfrom toddlers to adults. All guests can participate in daily programs and experiences facilitated by moxis floor staff known as sparks. Educators and students have opportunities to visit on field trips and participate in facilitated engineering exploration programs. Moxi offers paid programs for all ages throughout the year, from week-long camps for children to happy hour events for adults, teacher nights out, the teen maker corps and more - there is something for everyone at moxi.exhibits - the museums 25,000 square foot, leed-certified goldbuilding houses three floors filled with interactive exhibits, rotatingart installations, the innovation workshop makerspace, a multipurposeexploration lab, and back-of-house office and exhibit workshop space.operations - moxi serves around 165,000 visitors annually. Ouroperations team prepares our guests…
$3,513,862 spent$2,101,423 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,513,862.
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.
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 $25M to $23M (−8%).
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 5% · 2021 25% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 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
Robin Gose
CEO & president
Board chair
Kelly Almeroth
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 20 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $613k.
13 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
46% 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 MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 58% · 2019 31% · 2020 28% · 2021 24% · 2022 22% · 2023 29% — 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
42% of MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
86% of MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $494k on record.
- National Science Foundation$494k
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 MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION: 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 MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION?
- MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,282,678 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,301,220). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $8,282,678 in grants to MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,301,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 55 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