New Mexico · Nonprofit
SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,494,495 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($423,590). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Santa Fe Children's Museum Inc does
Mission
Discovering the joys of learning, play, and community. The santa fe children's museum builds upon a child's sense of joy and discovery by cultivating habits of inquiry in the arts, sciences, and humanities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Santa fe children's museum (sfcm) is a non-profit cultural institution that helps children discover the joys of learning, play, and community. For 39 years, our innovative bilingual programs and exhibits have provided hands-on exploration and informal education opportunities. Sfcm was incorporated in 1985, becoming the first children's museum in the state of new mexico. The building, which is located on the historic armory for the arts campus in santa fe, was originally constructed in the 1930s. Today, sfcm is the only organization of its kind in the region, serving 60,000 children and families annually through dynamic exhibits, programs, and cultural events. Our key focus is to ensure "access for all" by reducing barriers and interweaving the multicultural heritage unique to new mexico as we honor and celebrate it.
$293,312 spent$124,506 earned by the program20% of program spendingStargazer is a pop-up planetarium that can be set up nearly anywhere to ignite interest in the sciences, astronomy, and beyond. Since january 2021, stargazer has reached 33,868 children in northern new mexico counties. Our bilingual educator takes stargazer to k-12 students throughout northern new mexico and delivers a transformative multilingual program designed to teach "stem ready!" science standards appropriate to the grade level of each class. Due to a generous grant, stargazer trips to public and title 1 schools in northern new mexico are free and available for private schools, camps, and other locations for a modest fee.
$586,625 spent$249,010 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe children's museum has been organizing excellent day camps in the town for many years. These camps are designed to teach stem and art concepts, as well as practical skills such as coding and carpentry to children aged 5-9. Moreover, the museum offers full scholarships to those who are unable to afford it.
$586,625 spent$249,010 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,466,562.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $6.5M (+264%).
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 17% · 2018 17% · 2019 14% · 2021 22% · 2022 20% · 2023 8% · 2024 7% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC’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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Hannah Hausman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $149k → $362k.
9 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
55% 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 SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 55% · 2019 41% · 2020 17% · 2021 20% · 2022 17% · 2023 26% — 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
42% of SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
75% of SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $906k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
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 Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA FE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,494,495 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($423,590). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $2,494,495 in grants to SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $423,590 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 59 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