Arizona · Nonprofit
TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON
TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON (Arizona) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,364,804 to it, the largest being MARGARET E MOONEY FOUNDATION ($1,338,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Tucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson does
Mission
Tucson children's museum|oro valley (cmt|cmov)'s mission it to provide fun, play-based, interactive, hands-on learning experiences for children and their families. Our vision is to inspire children and their families to reach their full potential through discovery, creativity, and learning. Known throughout arizona as children's museum tucson, cmt offers interactive exhibits, educational programming, and community engagement in an inclusive encironment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The museum served 206,267 children and families in fy 25, over 323 days, through in person programming, outreach and community engagement. The museum fosters a passion for learning by offering programs that nourish curiosity and imagination for children of all abilities, focusing on early childhood education, school readiness, and science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics (steam) disciplines. Cmt's (cmt|cmov) pillars are ensuring accessibility, authentically representing the diversity of the community, and serving as a collaborative community resource for interactive, play-based learning. The museum aims to serve over 200,000 children and families each year.
$2,243,579 spent$1,258,349 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,243,579.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $4.4M (+142%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 15% · 2019 11% · 2020 15% · 2021 29% · 2022 35% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Steve Pangburn
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $114k → $325k.
7 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $109k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arizona Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON raised.
From the IRS filings of TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. 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
TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
30% 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 TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 52% · 2019 30% · 2020 38% · 2021 34% · 2022 29% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
92% of TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $335k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $487k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$452k
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
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 TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON?
- TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON (Arizona) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,364,804 to it, the largest being MARGARET E MOONEY FOUNDATION ($1,338,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $5,364,804 in grants to TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON?
- MARGARET E MOONEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,338,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Tucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson →
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 58 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