Major individual gifts to the Rose Center have been provided by Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gilder, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman, David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman, Robert R. and Elizabeth S. Barker, Joan Bull, Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn, and the Arthur Ross Foundation. Support for the Hayden Planetarium has been provided by a generous grant from the Charles Hayden Foundation.

Public support of the Rose Center has been provided by the State of New York, the City of New York, Office of the Mayor, the Speaker and the Council of the City of New York, and the Office of the Manhattan Borough President. Significant educational and programming support has been provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Major support from Eastman Kodak Company.