Michigan · Nonprofit
UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED
UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,158 to it, the largest being THE JAMES AND KIMBERLY CURRIE FOUNDATION ($62,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
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.
- United Way of Marquette Countyshared funderslocal
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio match
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio match
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.
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 14% · 2018 15% · 2019 11% · 2020 43% · 2021 29% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $19k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED’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
UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 45% · 2019 31% · 2020 35% · 2021 20% · 2022 21% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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
78% of UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
99% of UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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.
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 10 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Marquette Countyshared funderslocalMI · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr Metzger Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frances R Dewing Foundation 7600-Xxxxxx15480portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Davis Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bertuzzi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wyeth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED?
- UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,158 to it, the largest being THE JAMES AND KIMBERLY CURRIE FOUNDATION ($62,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $220,158 in grants to UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED?
- THE JAMES AND KIMBERLY CURRIE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $62,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 10funders 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