New Mexico · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION
NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,930 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $372k
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What National Atomic Museum Foundation does
Mission
The National Atomic Museum Foundation (the foundation) was formed in 1992 to provide the cultural, educational, and scientific programs of the national museum of nuclear science & history (the museum). The museum is the nation's only congressionally-chartered museum of nuclear science & history. The foundation owns and operates the museum, compensates staff, develops broad public, private, and volunteer support for the museum, and provides financial support for the museum's programs, exhibits, and collections. Foundation membership is open to any person or organization that meets eligibility criteria established by the board of trustees. The main sources of support and revenue of the foundation are governmental contracts with snl, contributions from various individuals, foundations, and business enterprises, sales from the museum store, museum admissions, program services revenue, memberships, and event revenues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
National museum of nuclear science & history is the nation's only congressionally chartered museum of nuclear science and history. It includes operation of the museum gift store which sells items that feature the history of atomic energy and nuclear physics.
$1,430,126 spent$1,727,311 earned by the program72% of program spendingEducational programs- consist of learning tours, classroom programs, nuclear science week, student and teacher workshops, science camps, and stem (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
$480,849 spent$301,037 earned by the program24% of program spendingGeneral programs- marketing, public relations, and facility rentals promoting the museum and its programs.
$69,341 spent$106,198 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,980,316.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $6.9M (+10%).
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 1% · 2021 16% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Toni Hiley
Chair
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 $11k → $19k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION’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
NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
45% 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 NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 98% · 2019 55% · 2020 58% · 2021 44% · 2022 81% · 2023 42% — 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
50% of NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
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In New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION: 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 NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,930 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $371,930 in grants to NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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