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Texas Museum of Science & Technology
Texas Museum of Science & Technology (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being THE KODOSKY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Texas Museum of Science & Technology receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,323 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017
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.
- Leo M Shortino Family Foundationshared funders
- Humanities Texasportfolio match
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Texas Museum of Science & Technology’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
Texas Museum of Science & Technology leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
“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
75% of Texas Museum of Science & Technology's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Leo M Shortino Family Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Humanities Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Historical Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William Knox Holt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marshall Steves Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stedman West Foundation (Fka Neva and Wesley West Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texans for Lawsuit Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tobin Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jack and Joyce Sampson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Summerfield G Roberts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Still Water Foundationportfolio 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.
Government funding Texas Museum of Science & Technology receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- Department of Justice$105k
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 Texas Museum of Science & Technology
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Texas Museum of Science & Technology: 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 Texas Museum of Science & Technology?
- Texas Museum of Science & Technology (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being THE KODOSKY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Texas Museum of Science & Technology have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,000 in grants to Texas Museum of Science & Technology.
- Who is the largest funder of Texas Museum of Science & Technology?
- THE KODOSKY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Texas Museum of Science & Technology find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 3funders 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