Tennessee · Nonprofit
Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery
Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,510 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $182k
What Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery does
Mission
The primary purpose of the organization is: To educate, inform, and inspire people about how scientific discoveries lead to medical breakthroughs that change the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Mission of the Museum of Medicine and Biomedical Discovery is to educate, inform and inspire people about how scientific discoveries lead to medical breakthroughs that change the world. A world in which past achievements in biomedical science and medicine are understood and appreciated. An experience that will inspire current and future generations to pursue careers that improve human health and life.
$2,461 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,461.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $107k to $182k (+71%).
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.
100% of Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Mace Rothenberg MD
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery’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 of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery.
“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
Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 5 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery runs a healthier operating margin 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 Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery: 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 of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery?
- Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,510 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $160,510 in grants to Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $62,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 9 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