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Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful educational, aesthetic, intellectual and cultural experiences for the widest array of audiences. The los…

$396k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$30k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2021 to FY2024
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Museum Associates funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$30k100%
FY20243$46k100%
FY20222$1.2M50%
FY20212$991kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.3M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Triple Aught Foundation$1,981,714383%
Skystone Foundation Inc$200,00021%
Emerging Object$41,6751n/a
The Garden in the Machine Inc$30,0001n/a
Not the Inc$16,0001n/a
Iyoiyo LLC$15,0002n/a
Pacific Traditions Society$15,00025%

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About Museum Associates

How much does Museum Associates give?
Museum Associates reported 1 itemized grants totaling $30,000, out of $395,921 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Museum Associates fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Museum Associates's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Triple Aught Foundation ($2.0M), Skystone Foundation Inc ($200k), Emerging Object ($42k).
Does Museum Associates fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Museum Associates based?
Museum Associates is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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