Oklahoma · Nonprofit
TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,526,989 to it, the largest being THE ANNE AND HENRY ZARROW FOUNDATION ($6,050,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Tulsa Children's Museum Inc does
Mission
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Gallery:discovery lab offers interactive exhibits and programming intended for children and their families. The exhibits and programs incorporate science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (steam) and are designed to inspire children, connect families, and build community for our over 200,000 museum visitors.
$3,153,624 spent$1,694,426 earned by the program58% of program spendingField trips with a museum education class:many school groups and organizations come to visit discovery lab for a fun and educational field trip that includes a museum education class. In addition to the gallery experience, museum education classes offer a variety of standards-aligned topics that focus on hands-on, minds-on learning. Discovery lab welcomed over 23,000 students for a museum class and gallery visit, including the nearly 17,000 students who visited as part of the notable partnership with tulsa public schools.
$1,592,972 spent$274,463 earned by the program29% of program spendingOutreach:discovery lab outreach classes and series programs bring unique experiences to classrooms, after-school programs, scouting groups, and more. All classes in the catalog are based on oklahoma academic standards and encourage children to connect to arts and sciences in ways that make learning engaging, challenging, and fun. The program reached over 15,500 students.
$434,487 spent$59,073 earned by the program8% of program spendingExhibits enterprise:in addition to designing, developing, building and maintaining exhibit experiences for the discovery lab gallery, the exhibits team also designs, develops, and builds original exhibit experiences for rent or sale to other education-focused organizations and museums.
$46,368 spent$458,116 earned by the program1% of program spendingCamp:discovery lab offers camps to engage and educate children pre-k through sixth grade. With fun, hands-on activities focused on topics like chemistry, engineering, and coding, there's something for every young explorer. With weeklong and day camps during summer vacation, fall break, winter holidays, and spring break, discovery lab hosted over 3,000 campers.
$210,421 spent$164,168 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,437,872.
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 2018 to 2019, from $7.7M to $25M (+227%).
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 5% · 2022 6% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Ray Vandiver
Executive director through 2/25/25
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $72k → $1.5M.
8 of 51 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 TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC 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
33% 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 TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 87% · 2019 55% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 52% · 2023 38% — 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
52% of TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
97% of TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53k on record — $44k federal, $10k state.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$44k
- Business Support Services$7k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$2k
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 TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,526,989 to it, the largest being THE ANNE AND HENRY ZARROW FOUNDATION ($6,050,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $24,526,989 in grants to TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC?
- THE ANNE AND HENRY ZARROW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 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