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THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $975,619 to it, the largest being THE GRABLE FOUNDATION ($216,542). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $976k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What The North Carolina Children's Museum does
Mission
See schedule oThe North Carolina Children's Museum provides hands-on learning experiences for young children aged 0-12 years and their caregivers. Educational programs include exhibits, storytimes, music programs, art classes, child development education for caregivers, field trips, and outreach to families in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Nc children's museum added a mobile component to it's program services. Offering field trips across north carolina & hands-on stem learning opportunities at community centers, festivals, and museums.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The North Carolina Children's Museum inspires children and the adults in their lives to learn through creative and puposeful play, with a focus on stem, the arts, child health and emerging literacy. Kidzu continues to provide interactive exhibits, participatory programs and activities, and community outreach to underserved children and families, as well as virtual opportunities for learning and engagement. In fiscal year 2025, the museum began operating a stem mobile museum to deliver hands-on exhibits and programming directly to schools and community events across north carolina. Fully equipped with 9 exhibits for on-site stem learning, this mobile experience sparks curiosity and expands access to museum-quality learning statewide. (continued on schedule o)the mobile museum contains 9 exhibits that focus on stem through a lens on space science. The nine interrelated learning stations are: power station; digital design; aerodynamic test chamber; r.o.v. Command; quake; communication station; energy beam; robot; and energize.
$928,931 spent$141,221 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $928,931.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $5.4M (+183%).
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: 2021 18% · 2022 25% · 2023 1% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Jaimie Holcomb
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $6k → $195k.
8 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S 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
THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 65% · 2019 67% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 43% · 2023 30% — 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
50% of THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
60% of THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $335k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $294k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$284k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $975,619 to it, the largest being THE GRABLE FOUNDATION ($216,542). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $975,619 in grants to THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- THE GRABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $216,542 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing