Florida · Nonprofit
ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC
ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC (Florida) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,727,514 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,387,488). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Orlando Science Centerinc does
Mission
Orlando science center's mission is to "inspire science learning for life".
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
By inspiring science learning for all, osc creates prosperity in our community that enhances lives. In fy2025, osc had 685,000 visitors (a 4% increase over fy 24), including 184,308 who received free or reduced-price admission. Our core exhibits include kidstown - creative play nurturing cognitive development of young children; life - which tells the story of conservation through direct encounters with the animals that share our planet; kinetic zone - fundamentals of forces; dino digs - paleontology and giant prehistoric creatures; our planet, our solar system - mysteries of space and earth's dynamic forces; and the hive: a makerspace - making, learning and exploring with tools and mentors to help turn creative ideas into reality.
$4,617,572 spent$5,056,570 earned by the program30% of program spending161,000 of our visitors experienced osc through field trips and other educational programming. We inspire stem learning through on-site demonstrations, programs, labs and school field trip activities, teacher professional development, break camps and classes, an onsite preschool, and engaging competitions. Our educational programming is engaging, hands-on, and aligned to educational standards to ensure meaningful learning experiences. Off-site programs bring classroom and assembly-style learning to students and their families at local schools, libraries, and other educational and other cultural venues in nine counties throughout central florida.osc's place-based outreach program, neighborhood science, provides consistent stem learning experiences for after school programs identified by our community partners and local government officials as distressed communities that lack access to quality stem experiences. On fiscal year (fy) 2024 neighborhood science served two locations, grand avenue neighborhood center and the bradley otis branch of the boys & girls clubs of central florida, with free stem workshops 2-4 days per week, covering topics such as engineering design process,…
$8,080,752 spent$2,884,833 earned by the program52% of program spendingOur dr. Phillips cinedome, observatory and digital adventure theater educate visitors of all ages. The cinedome began renovation in august of 2025 and will reopen in spring 2026 as "the dome by dr. Phillips charities". The dome will offer cutting edge planetarium shows along with giant screen movies and original laser light shows. The renovation will also include an upgrade to an 8k ultra high-definition full dome laser projection system. The digital adventure theater hosts educational movies daily such as cities of the future and also science live! Program favorites that bring the guest experience to life with state-of-the-art 4k rgb laser projection and 7.1 surround sound, the digital adventure theater also presents movies in 2d and 3d, and hosts guest presentations by scientists. The observatory features central florida's largest refractor telescope and provides public access for viewing astronomical events.
$2,693,585 spent$1,685,524 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,391,909.
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 $16M to $27M (+64%).
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 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 56% · 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 28% · 2023 14% · 2024 16% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Joann Newman
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $493k → $734k.
7 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $4.3M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Arts of Central Florida Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC raised.
From the IRS filings of ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% 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 ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 38% · 2019 81% · 2020 44% · 2021 24% · 2022 18% · 2023 18% — 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
36% of ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC'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
59% of ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record — $4.3M federal, $8k state.
- Department of Defense$3.0M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.0M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$186k
- Department of Agriculture$46k
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
- CONSULTING SERVICES - GENERAL $4k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $4k
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 ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC: 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 ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC?
- ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC (Florida) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,727,514 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,387,488). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $5,727,514 in grants to ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,387,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 60 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