Indiana · Nonprofit
The Children's Museum Guild Inc
The Children's Museum Guild Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,500 to it, the largest being TOBIAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $849k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $263k
What The Children's Museum Guild Inc does
Mission
The Children's Museum Guild, Inc. is an independent volunteer organization committed to help promote and support The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Inc. through fund-raising projects and volunteer assistance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The children's museum guild, inc. (the guild) was founded to support the children's museum of indianapolis (the museum). The guild is involved in several projects to help raise funds for the children's museum of indianapolis. In addition, the organization has many initiatives that promote the museum and further the mission of the museum by connecting children in the community with parts of the museum. (continued on schedule o)
$832,557 spentof which $751,477 as grants$45,059 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $832,557.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $164k to $202k (+23%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of The Children's Museum Guild 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
The Children's Museum Guild Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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% · 2018 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
91% of The Children's Museum Guild Inc's grant income comes from Indiana 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.
Organizations like The Children's Museum Guild Inc
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Children's Museum Guild 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 The Children's Museum Guild Inc?
- The Children's Museum Guild Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,500 to it, the largest being TOBIAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Children's Museum Guild Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,500 in grants to The Children's Museum Guild Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of The Children's Museum Guild Inc?
- TOBIAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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 The Children's Museum Guild 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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