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National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$444k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.9M
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $545,958, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,647,664 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,101,706 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $102k
  • $250k+1 grant · $444k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The George Washington University$443,758
Flint Institute of Art$12,200
Boise Art Museum Inc$10,000
Nevada Museum of Art$10,000
Figgie Art Museum$10,000
Denver Art Museum$10,000
New Britain Museum of American Art Inc$10,000
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art$10,000
Anchorage Museum$10,000
Mint Museum of Art Inc$10,000
Whatcom Museum Foundation$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Boise Art Museum Inc: $10k → 8%The George Washington University: $7.4M → 14%Figgie Art Museum: $10k → 12%Flint Institute of Art: $12k → 16%New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: $10k → 11%Mint Museum of Art Inc: $10k → 10%Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: $10k → 8%Denver Art Museum: $10k → 12%Whatcom Museum Foundation: $10k → 12%Anchorage Museum: $10k → 10%Nevada Museum of Art: $10k → 10%The George Washington University: $444k → 14%The George Washington University: $439k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $414k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$261k · 63% · 10 people

Stated purpose: Research fellowships awarded each fiscal year by the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in art and architecture.

East Asia and the Pacific$105k · 25% · 4 people

Stated purpose: Research fellowships awarded each fiscal year by the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in art and architecture.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$28k · 7% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Research fellowships awarded each fiscal year by the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in art and architecture.

South America$10k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Research fellowships awarded each fiscal year by the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in art and architecture.

Sub-Saharan Africa$7k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Research fellowships awarded each fiscal year by the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in art and architecture.

South Asia$4k · 1% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Research fellowships awarded each fiscal year by the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in art and architecture.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Art Explorium
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2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Collections
Arts & Culture
5
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
6
The Diversity Museum of Art and Culture
Arts & Culture
7
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture
10
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art C/O Denver Art Museu
Arts & Culture
11
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
12
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boise Art Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whatcom Museum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The George Washington University: $8,267,144 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityFlint Institute of Arts: $12,200 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of Art: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWHATCOM MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAnchorage Museum Association: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOISE ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFTC Child Care Center (Bright Horizons): $52,500 · Other
Education$8,267,144Arts & Culture$102,200Other$52,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe George Washington University: $8,267,144 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFlint Institute of Arts: $12,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOISE ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Gallery of Art funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Gallery of Art. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 12 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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