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ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER
ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $388,050 to it, the largest being BROOME COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ($370,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $0
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $388k
- Net assets
- $0
What Roberson Memorial Inc Dba Roberson Museum and Science Center does
Mission
Roberson Museum and Science Center is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), is a member of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) and is home to a digital planetarium. See Schedule O for the Mission Statement.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Roberson operates a museum and science center to promote arts, history and sciences (both natural and environmental) through exhibitions, partnership collaborations and school and public programming. Roberson's facilities include galleries, studios, a theater, labs and a digital planetarium. Its collections are extensive as well as diverse.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.9M to $0 (−100%).
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $56k → $43k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $38k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Roberson Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER’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
ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 94% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% — 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 ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER'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. 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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER?
- ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $388,050 to it, the largest being BROOME COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ($370,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $388,050 in grants to ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER?
- BROOME COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 3 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