New York · Nonprofit
ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER
ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,488,426 to it, the largest being DR G CLIFFORD & FLORENCE B DECKER FOUNDATION INC ($334,651). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Broome County Incshared funderslocal
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio match
- Richard C Von Hess Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2018 2% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 18% · 2023 9% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $126k → $305k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $289k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Roberson Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of 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 MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 72% · 2020 55% · 2021 33% · 2022 71% · 2023 41% — 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
67% of ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
80% of 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. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 22 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Broome County Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard C Von Hess Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hs & Cg Patterson Jr Char Fd Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vytautas Burbulis Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peggy N & Roger G Gerry Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacob & Rose Olum FoundationlocalNY · funds 15 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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
- The Roberson Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER?
- ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,488,426 to it, the largest being DR G CLIFFORD & FLORENCE B DECKER FOUNDATION INC ($334,651). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,488,426 in grants to ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER?
- DR G CLIFFORD & FLORENCE B DECKER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $334,651 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 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.
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 22funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing