Arizona · Nonprofit
SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,000 to it, the largest being PANOUSOPOULOS SCHOLASTIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,836 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2020
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.
- Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz Countylocalportfolio match
- Arts Council Santa Cruz Countylocalportfolio match
- William J Codiga Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $55k.
From the IRS filings of SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC’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
SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.
“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
90% of SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Arizona 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.
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.
- Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz Countylocalportfolio matchCA · funds 46 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council Santa Cruz Countylocalportfolio matchCA · funds 26 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- William J Codiga Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 25 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Save Mart Caresshared fundersCA · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Myriad Consulting and Training Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rossi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agnes B Kline Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Century Arts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mack and Eleanor Lewis Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: 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 SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,000 to it, the largest being PANOUSOPOULOS SCHOLASTIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $72,000 in grants to SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- PANOUSOPOULOS SCHOLASTIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 2funders 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