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Alabama · Nonprofit
US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER (Alabama) is funded by 31 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $2,978,490 in grants to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,000,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 2,461 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,461 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
20% of US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $24k → $67k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
13 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation.
US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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 79% · 2018 33% · 2019 28% · 2020 63% · 2021 37% · 2022 79% · 2023 23% · 2024 36% · 2025 54% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
31% of US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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.
US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 31 funders put you typical 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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
100% of spending goes to programs.
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 31funders 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. view filing