New York · Nonprofit
PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION
PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,292,210 to it, the largest being Cornell University ($698,041). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Paleontological Research Institution does
Mission
Disseminate human understanding of the history of life on earth. The institution conducts and facilitates paleontological research, and communicates knowledge resulting from this research. It houses, curates, and makes available specimen collections and a research library; publishes technical and popular paleontological books and journals; and promotes education in earth history and paleontology by providing exhibits to the general public and educational materials and programs to schools and students at all levels through the museum of the earth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The museum's 8,000-square-foot permanent exhibition takes visitors on a journey through 4.5 billion years of history, from the earth's origin to the present day. Through hands-on, visual exhibitions and outreach, the museum of the earth encourages critical thinking about life on earth in the past and today, and how our species is affecting the natural world.
$2,391,383 spent$659,893 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe nature center cultivates an awareness, appreciation, and responsibility for the natural world through outdoor and environmental education.
$139,329 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,391,383.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7.1M to $9.3M (+30%).
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 17% · 2018 24% · 2019 5% · 2020 3% · 2021 29% · 2022 18% · 2023 9% · 2024 17% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Warren Allmon
Exec. Director
Board chair
Brian Bauer
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $121k → $317k.
13 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION’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
PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
79% 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 PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 59% · 2019 47% · 2020 38% · 2021 36% · 2022 38% · 2023 47% — 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
29% of PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
79% of PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $950k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- National Science Foundation$1.5M
- Department of Commerce$275k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$245k
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 PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cayuga Nature Center · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION: 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 PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION?
- PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,292,210 to it, the largest being Cornell University ($698,041). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,292,210 in grants to PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION?
- Cornell University is the largest funder on record, with $698,041 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 28 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