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SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM
SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,911,067 to it, the largest being MARK AND CAROLYN GUIDRY FOUNDATION ($1,259,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Sierra Nevada Children's Museum Dba Kidzone Museum does
Mission
To inspire learning through creative play and discovery.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
This year, we made significant strides in our commitment to inclusivity by attending a community support group for parents of children with special needs. This invaluable experience has equipped us with insights on how to better serve these families. We also had the pleasure of hosting a group session at kidzone museum, where families were invited to participate and socialize together. This event fostered a sense of community and support, allowing us to deepen our understanding and strengthen our connection with families in need, ensuring our museum remains a welcoming space for everyone.
$249,699 spent$120,949 earned by the program80% of program spendingOne of our most exciting achievements has been the integration of sierra community house's family room program into our museum. This remarkable initiative, tailored for young children who have yet to start school, helps prepare them for their educational journey in the most engaging and joyful way possible. Through music, dance, imaginative play, and hands-on activities, children build vital social and cognitive skills while having fun in a supportive environment. Family room fosters a love of learning, strengthens community ties, and ensures every child has the tools to thrive-making it a perfect fit for our museum's mission to inspire learning through creative play and discovery. Weekly, an average of 150 children and family members participated in the program. Hosted three successful community events: tree frog treks and family farm festival. Both featured live animals and were an introduction to caring for and sustaining our planet for all its plants and animals. Both events had over 863 attendees, and we provided a special hour just for those families with children with special needs. The third event was a first for the museum day of the child/da de los nios is a celebration…
$62,425 spent20% of program spendingAll other - one of our most exciting achievements has been the integration of sierra community house's family room program into our museum. This remarkable initiative, tailored for young children who have yet to start school, helps prepare them for their educational journey in the most engaging and joyful way possible. Through music, dance, imaginative play, and hands-on activities, children build vital social and cognitive skills while having fun in a supportive environment. Family room fosters a love of learning, strengthens community ties, and ensures every child has the tools to thrive-making it a perfect fit for our museum's mission to inspire learning through creative play and discovery.hosted two successful community events: tree frog treks and family farm festival. Both featured live animals and were an introduction to caring for and sustaining our planet for all its plants and animals. Both events had over 863 attendees, and we provided a special hour just for those families with children with special needs.continued work on our capital campaign to build a larger, permanent museum. We have raised almost $4.8 million for this $11 million dollar project. We are actively…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,124.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $3.6M (+140%).
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 7% · 2018 9% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 11% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Carol Meagher
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $34k → $779k.
11 of 25 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 SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM’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
SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 41% · 2019 63% · 2020 70% · 2021 78% · 2022 54% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
87% of SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM 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
Government funding SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$49k
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 SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM?
- SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,911,067 to it, the largest being MARK AND CAROLYN GUIDRY FOUNDATION ($1,259,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,911,067 in grants to SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM?
- MARK AND CAROLYN GUIDRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,259,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 25 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