Whaling Museum Society Inc.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY Doing business as The Whaling Museum And Education Center
- UEI
- JJL7BUMQVKR1
- CAGE
- 7EU33
- Primary NAICS
- Not on record
- SAM.gov registration
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Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- Main St, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
- Website
- cshwhalingmuseum.org
- Founded
- 1942
- Employees
- 51-250
- Estimated annual revenue
- $10M-$50M
- Industry
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- Consumer Discretionary
- Media
- Movies & Entertainment
- SIC code
- 84 Museums, Botanical, Zoological Gardens
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Grant awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
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About the company
Whaling Museum Society Inc., doing business as The Whaling Museum And Education Center, is a tax-exempt nonprofit museum located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, that receives federal grant funding to support exhibition design, curation, and public programming centered on maritime history and cultural narratives. The vendor operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient (100% of recent awards); it holds no federal contracts, IDVs, or BPAs and does not serve as a subcontractor on federal awards.
The museum's federal funding footprint is concentrated among three cultural agencies. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has funded four grant awards, including a $150,025 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant running September 1, 2024, through August 31, 2026, to fabricate, install, and evaluate a two-year special exhibition exploring ocean-inspired myths and monsters and their contemporary connections, with onsite and offsite learning opportunities including school group tours, workshops, and lectures. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has funded three project grants: a January 1, 2022, grant supporting research, design, installation, and evaluation of a Black Mariners exhibition exploring the role of Black whalers in American history; a November 1, 2021, IMLS-funded project grant with identical scope (Black Mariners exhibition, 2021–2023); an April 1, 2025, grant award of $25,000 to support reinterpretation of the museum's humanities-based exhibitions and design of a new permanent gallery around a full-size whale skeleton; and a January 1, 2026, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) project grant to support staff costs, exhibition materials, and artist fees for a multimedia arts workshop series exploring national identity and maritime heritage, featuring artists Cindy Roe and Denise Weetahmoe Dennis. Combined federal dollars obligated across all eight awards total $447 thousand, spread across five years. Activity has been sparse and episodic — one award per year in 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, and 2026 — with one award (the NEA workshop series grant) completing within the next twenty-four months.
Quick answers
Is Whaling Museum Society Inc. registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Whaling Museum Society Inc.'s SAM.gov registration is active through August 28, 2027.
What is Whaling Museum Society Inc.'s most recent federal award?
Whaling Museum Society Inc.'s most recent federal grant award is To support staff costs exhibition and programming materials and artist fees for cindy ROE and denise weetahmoe dennis… (19477774426), from National Endowment for the Arts, on January 1, 2026.
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