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TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC

TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $925,387 to it, the largest being THE SIMONS FOUNDATION INC ($150,692). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$925k
Net assets
$3.6M
15/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Terre Haute Children's Museum Inc does

Mission

The museum is a community involved educational and cultural facility designed especially for young people, which encourages curiosity through hands-on activities

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The museum is a community involved educational and cultural facility designed especially for young people, which encourages curiosity through hands-on activities

    $1,329,095 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. The museum is a community involved educational and cultural facility designed especially for young people, which encourages curiosity through hands-on activities

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,329,095.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($488k) Expenses 100 ($656k) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2018 Revenue 171 ($833k) Expenses 118 ($774k) Net assets 103 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 182 ($890k) Expenses 136 ($891k) Net assets 104 ($3.9M)2020 Revenue 147 ($717k) Expenses 121 ($795k) Net assets 102 ($3.8M)2021 Revenue 213 ($1.0M) Expenses 126 ($826k) Net assets 108 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 193 ($940k) Expenses 182 ($1.2M) Net assets 101 ($3.8M)2023 Revenue 247 ($1.2M) Expenses 180 ($1.2M) Net assets 102 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 282 ($1.4M) Expenses 190 ($1.2M) Net assets 105 ($3.9M)2025 Revenue 225 ($1.1M) Expenses 214 ($1.4M) Net assets 97 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (225)Expenses (214)Net assets (97)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.1M to $3.8M (−7%).

$3.8M
$3.9M
$3.9M
$4.0M
$4.2M
$3.9M
$4.0M
$4.1M
$3.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

49% of TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$168k
’17
$59k
’18
−$438
’19
−$78k
’20
$214k
’21
−$252k
’22
$27k
’23
$130k
’24
−$306k
’25
13
months of
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.

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Listed211414142323212020
Joined·+0+1+0+9+3+1+4+0
No longer listed·71003350
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $200 → $260k.

3 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $262k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC raised.

From the IRS filings of TERRE HAUTE 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

TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

16%
largest funder
45%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 83% · 2020 33% · 2021 21% · 2022 31% · 2023 58% — 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

58% of TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

69% of TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−28% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve13.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 3%Fundraising 2%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $925,387 to it, the largest being THE SIMONS FOUNDATION INC ($150,692). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $925,387 in grants to TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
THE SIMONS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 26 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