California · Nonprofit
MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC
MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,472,963 to it, the largest being Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc ($1,350,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc does
Mission
The Museum inspires wonder, discovery, and stewardship of our natural world. The Museum is a catalyst for conservation and a valued learning resource, facilitating active scientific and historical inquiry for all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: The The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History's Education programs include free school field trips, free Science Saturdays (offered 9 times per year) and hands-on community science opportunities for all ages. Outdoor science education includes LiMPETS (Long Term Monitoring Program and Experimental Training for Students) and Watershed Explorers, which offers watershed education field trips. This year the Museum offered several all ages field sketching workshops and continued middle school and teen programs. Over 10,000 students participate in the Museum's programs each year.
$706,749 spent$69,039 earned by the program71% of program spendingExhibitions: Since its beginning in 1883, the Museum has excelled at teaching the public about the natural world through a variety of exhibitions displaying monarch butterflies, local birds and wildlife, geology, and cultural artifacts to name a few. This fiscal year the museum hosted several temporary exhibits including "From the Real to the Unreal," "Illustrating Nature," "Invasive Attempts, and Beyond illustrating Nature artist every quarter, as well as installed a new permanent exhibition, "Jade Beneath the Sea." Starting in January 2025, the Museum renovatred several of its galleries space.
$290,847 spent$62,676 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $997,596.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.0M to $3.2M (+56%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 25% · 2019 13% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 17% · 2023 20% · 2024 24% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
John O'Sullivan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $70k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC’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
MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 56% · 2019 83% · 2020 75% · 2021 95% · 2022 73% · 2023 57% — 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
20% of MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$68k
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 MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC: 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 MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC?
- MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,472,963 to it, the largest being Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc ($1,350,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,472,963 in grants to MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC?
- Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC 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.
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 21 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