Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (Oregon) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,585,394 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,549,329). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $44M
What Oregon Museum of Science and Industry does
Mission
Inspire curiosity through engaging science learning experiences, foster experimentation and the exchange of ideas, and stimulate informed action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum activities (science exhibits) - five exhibit halls and eight science labs offer 219,000 square feet of brain-powered fun through hundreds of interactive exhibits and hands-on demonstrations.
$15,165,028 spent$11,053,440 earned by the program72% of program spendingEducational programs (science camps and classes) - omsi offers a variety of camps and classes as well as one of the largest outreach programs in the nation, taking innovative science and technology education "on the road" to students, teachers and the public in five western states.
$5,353,955 spent$4,206,974 earned by the program25% of program spendingAuxiliary activities (science store, event sales)
$637,729 spent$57,455 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,156,712.
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 $52M to $61M (+17%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 10% · 2020 0% · 2021 18% · 2022 10% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Erin Graham
President and CEO
Board chair
Carrie Spurlock
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $994k → $1.5M.
11 of 103 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $632k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY raised.
From the IRS filings of OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 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
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 48% · 2019 30% · 2020 27% · 2021 64% · 2022 22% · 2023 33% — 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
54% of OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
55% of OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY's funding base is broadening — from 27 funders to 37 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.6M on record — $10.1M federal, $2.5M state.
- National Science Foundation$7.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.7M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$961k
- Smithsonian Institution$110k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$46k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$2.3M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$188k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$44k
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$14k
- OTHER SERVICES$2k
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 OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
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 Oregon
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
92%
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 OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: 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 OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY?
- OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (Oregon) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,585,394 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,549,329). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $14,585,394 in grants to OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,549,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 103 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