North Carolina · Nonprofit
NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM
NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $740,000 to it, the largest being HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $740k
- Net assets
- $26M
What Nido & Mariana Qubein Childrens Museum does
Mission
The nido & mariana qubein children's museum provides a space of wonder, discovery and play for all children and families. We do this with a commitment to learning, inspiration and love of children as they explore our universe, earth and community. The nido & mariana qubein children's museum provides daily hands-on, engaging programming rooted in stem and art. The museum also offers special events, summer camps, school field trips, and a kindergarten readiness program in partnership with guilford county schools.in addition, the museum hosts sciquest, a monthly science-fair-style event offered in partnership with high point university's school of science. Sciquest features dozens of interactive science stations throughout the museum, giving children and families the opportunity to explore, experiment, and learn together.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The nido & mariana qubein children's museum opened its doors on april 30, 2022. In four years, the museum has welcomed more than 600,000 guests and generated an estimated $75 million in economic impact for the city of high point, according to visit high point inc.reflecting a strong commitment to accessibility and inclusion, the museum has provided free or reduced admission to more than 164,000 individuals. The museum is also proudly recognized as a certified autism center.designed to spark curiosity, creativity, and wonder, the museum offers children and families hands-on learning experiences through play. Guests can explore two floors of interactive exhibits, the outdoor adventure zone, the hall of mysteries, a double-decker carousel, steam lab, art studio, daily programming, and more.the museum serves as a hub for education, discovery, and enrichment, welcoming school field trips throughout the year and offering engaging summer camps that inspire children to learn, explore, and grow.
$2,730,393 spent$1,629,284 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,730,393.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $7.7M to $26M (+239%).
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.
8% of NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM’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. 3 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
Megan Ward
Executive director
Board chair
Barry Kitley
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $30k.
4 of 7 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 NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN 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
NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN 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 NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
- NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $740,000 to it, the largest being HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $740,000 in grants to NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM.
- Who is the largest funder of NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
- HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NIDO & MARIANA QUBEIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing