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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,000 to it, the largest being THE STARR FOUNDATION ($160,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$234k
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$482k
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
7/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($208k) Expenses 100 ($157k) Net assets 100 ($998k)2018 Revenue 83 ($172k) Expenses 74 ($116k) Net assets 106 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 82 ($171k) Expenses 128 ($201k) Net assets 130 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 175 ($364k) Expenses 77 ($120k) Net assets 162 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 52 ($107k) Expenses 50 ($78k) Net assets 186 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 45 ($93k) Expenses 180 ($281k) Net assets 136 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 46 ($96k) Expenses 65 ($102k) Net assets 148 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 113 ($234k) Expenses 185 ($290k) Net assets 183 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (185)Net assets (183)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
17
$56k
18
$30k
19
$244k
20
$29k
21
$189k
22
$6k
23
$56k
24
0.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $40k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

32% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC.

33%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 35% · 2019 88% · 2020 27% · 2021 50% · 2022 57% · 2023 63%growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

88% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

45%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Afsm Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC?
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,000 to it, the largest being THE STARR FOUNDATION ($160,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $482,000 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC?
THE STARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC 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.

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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing