New York · Nonprofit
ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER
ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,701,561 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,024,833). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 21 funders to 33 as grant income climbed.
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.
- Rochester Regional Library Councillocalportfolio match
- The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio 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: 2017 18% · 2018 25% · 2019 21% · 2020 32% · 2021 40% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% · 2024 21% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $120k → $614k.
9 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
33% 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 ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 24% · 2019 38% · 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 27% · 2023 19% — 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
51% of ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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 ROCHESTER MUSEUM & 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. $1.3M 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.
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 66 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rochester Regional Library Councillocalportfolio matchNY · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 48 organizations near you
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Museum of Natural Historyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 55 organizations near you
- United Way of Greater Rochester Incshared fundersNY · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Louis S & Molly B Wolk Foundationshared funderslocalNY · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 28 organizations near you
- Marie C and Joseph C Wilson Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 43 organizations near you
- Finger Lakes Performing Provider System Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 113 organizations near you
- Fred and Floy Willmott Foundation 14-217520shared funderslocalNY · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · funds 53 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.
Government funding ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.1M
- Department of the Interior$100k
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 ROCHESTER MUSEUM & 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCHESTER MUSEUM & 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER?
- ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,701,561 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,024,833). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $4,701,561 in grants to ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER?
- ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,024,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCHESTER MUSEUM & 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 66funders 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