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THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC

THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,640 to it, the largest being United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc ($221,682). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$686k
Revenue FY2024
5
Funders on record
$485k
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%

Against its field

THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin67% · top quartile
Months of reserve36.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($508k) Expenses 100 ($396k) Net assets 100 ($598k)2018 Revenue 192 ($975k) Expenses 147 ($584k) Net assets 165 ($989k)2019 Revenue 97 ($493k) Expenses 112 ($444k) Net assets 162 ($967k)2020 Revenue 45 ($230k) Expenses 89 ($351k) Net assets 141 ($847k)2021 Revenue 83 ($420k) Expenses 28 ($112k) Net assets 193 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 23 ($117k) Expenses 35 ($140k) Net assets 189 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 46 ($235k) Expenses 37 ($148k) Net assets 204 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 135 ($686k) Expenses 58 ($228k) Net assets 280 ($1.7M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (135)Expenses (58)Net assets (280)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2020 16% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$112k
’17
$391k
’18
$49k
’19
−$121k
’20
$308k
’21
−$23k
’22
$87k
’23
$458k
’24
36
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $102k → $31k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
2
2
4
4
3
2
1

2 of 5 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 THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA 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 OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC.

46%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 70% · 2023 81% — 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.

Where its funders are

62% of THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

LA
TX

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC

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 Louisiana

Bayou Country Children's Museum88%Louisiana Childrens Museum85%Northeast la Childrens Museum83%Louisiana Art & Science Museuminc83%Childrens Museum of Acadiana83%Louisiana Children's Discovery Center Inc82%La State Penitentiary Museum Foundation Inc80%Friends of Louisiana State Exhibit Museum Inc80%

Nationally

The Children's Museum of Memphis Inc89%Bayou Country Children's Museum88%Children's Museum of Greater Fall River Inc87%The Childrens Museum of the Ohio Valley Inc86%Children's Museum of Fond Du Lac Inc86%Discovery Children's Museum86%The Childrens Museum of Oswego86%Children's Museum of Lancaster86%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 22%Fundraising 5%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA 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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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 THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC?
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,640 to it, the largest being United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc ($221,682). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $484,640 in grants to THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC?
United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc is the largest funder on record, with $221,682 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 5funders 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