New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 238 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,926,923 to it, the largest being Noel and Harriette Levine Foundation Inc ($8,870,267). 145 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 238
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $156M
What American Friends of the Israel Museum does
Mission
Foster and encourage liberal arts and obtain art and archaeology for the israel museum , obtain grants and contributions for and make grants and contributions to the israel museum.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The American Friends of the Israel Museum supports approved projects at the israel museum, jerusalem. The three main areas of support are the fine arts, archaeology, and the youth wing. Support includes gifts of art, funding for special exhibitions, and funding for programming across the museum's many departments. Public programs include things ranging from the museum's annual kite flying festival to music in the galleries or sculpture garden. Youth wing programs include a teacher training program, a high school matriculation program, programs bringing jewish and arab youth together, programs for at risk teens, programs for families with special needs and much more. Annual support is also provided to subsidize museum admission for students and soldiers. Additionally, since october 2023 program support has included outreach art programs and services throughout the country for internally displaced israelis and those suffering from physical and psychological trauma as a result of the war.
$18,950,639 spentof which $18,438,190 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,950,639.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $210M to $157M (−25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Leah Siegel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 76 funders to 73 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.6M.
15 of 238 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.8M from 23 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 238 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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 24% · 2018 14% · 2019 56% · 2020 18% · 2021 51% · 2022 27% · 2023 13% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
34% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM?
- AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 238 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,926,923 to it, the largest being Noel and Harriette Levine Foundation Inc ($8,870,267). 145 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 238 organizations giving $38,926,923 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, 145 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM?
- Noel and Harriette Levine Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $8,870,267 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 238 funders 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. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing