New York · Nonprofit
ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER
ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,753,426 to it, the largest being SCHUMANN ROBERT F FDN-MAIN ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Roberson Museum and Science Center does
Mission
The museum is a regional museum of art, science, and local history serving the upper susquehanna valley region of ny and pa and is accreditted by the american alliance of museums, a member of the association of science and technology centers, and home to a digital planetarium.
As stated on its FY2025 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.
$940,846 spent$443,308 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $940,846.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.1M to $6.7M (+62%).
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 (63% 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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $126k → $305k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 29% 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
71% of ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
66% 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.
Against its field
ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER
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
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER?
- ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,753,426 to it, the largest being SCHUMANN ROBERT F FDN-MAIN ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,753,426 in grants to ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER?
- SCHUMANN ROBERT F FDN-MAIN is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 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.
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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 23 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