New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,082,170 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($1,637,023). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What American Museum of the Moving Image does
Mission
See schedule omuseum of the moving image (momi) is the only museum in the u.s. That explores the central technology of the present moment.screens are all around us. We use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. The moving image-encompassing film, television, video games, and other forms of digital media-shapes how we see and feel the world. With exhibitions?and screenings on the art, history, technique, and science of the moving image, momi presents the real and imagined worlds of our past, present, and future. With ground-breaking education programs, digital literacy initiatives, and cutting-edge media labs, momi is not just a museum but also a place where we can all make sense of the forces and experiences that create our shared reality. Momi is an open world in the heart of both astoria, nyc, and our entire creative community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions and the collection:the museum presents an ambitious slate of large- and small-scale permanent and changing exhibitions and video and art installations. The museum's core exhibition, behind the screen, immerses visitors in the creative process of making moving images. It features over 1,400 artifacts, from nineteenth-century optical toys to video games, as well as an array of interactive experiences, audiovisual material, and artworks. The jim henson exhibition explores the groundbreaking vision and transformative cultural impact of the beloved american artist, featuring a broad range of objects and materials including puppets, storyboards and character sketches, and moving-image media documenting his experimental film projects. Changing exhibitions during fiscal year 2025 included mission impossible-story and spectacle, which focused on the artistic commitment and technical ingenuity behind the remarkable stunt work that are highlights of the popular film franchise, and recording the ride: the rise of street-style skate videos, which featured videos and artifacts from skate culture's formative years. The museum maintains the nation's largest and most comprehensive…
$3,724,892 spent$1,625,219 earned by the program52% of program spendingScreenings, events, and online projects:each year the museum screens more than 500 films, presenting a panoramic view of the moving image, with live music for silent films, restored prints from the world's leading archives, and new films from the international festival circuit, the museum's screening program provides a state-of-the-art, immersive viewing experience for visitors. Annual programs that continued in fiscal year 2025 included the 14th annual edition of first look, which introduced audiences to works from around the world, encompassing feature and short films, fiction and nonfiction, and performances and experiments; and see it big, the museum's regular showcase of films that are meant to be seen on the big screen, with programs devoted to 70mm films and holiday films. Wide-ranging programs presented in fiscal year 2025 included personal belongings: first- person documentary in the 1990s and the magic of oz: a frank oz retrospective. As part of open worlds, a 15,500 square-foot, wi-fi-enabled, free community resource for visitors to convene, find creative inspiration, and experience new media technologies, the museum presented free programs focusing on the craft behind…
$2,018,665 spent$654,433 earned by the program28% of program spendingEducation and community engagementthe museum provides educational experiences to more than 70,000 students each year, as well as an array of dynamic and multi-lingual tours, talks, workshops, and screenings for children, teens, families, adults, and seniors. In-person and virtual workshops range from film appreciation and world-building with video games to science-fiction cinema, hands-on media making and puppetry for the screen. Game lab offers a dynamic space for visitors of all ages to experiment with the latest in digital technology to create games and animations. Marvels of media, the museum's annual festival recognizing the outstanding media work of autistic media-makers through film screenings, an exhibition, and in-depth panel discussions, and access mornings, a free program providing families on the autism spectrum an opportunity to explore exhibitions and participate in specialized workshops, continued in fiscal year 2025. Digital game design intensives and summer media camps, led by professional filmmakers and game designers, provided teens and tweens with the opportunity to collaborate in the creation of digital media. The annual teen council program continued to serve…
$1,402,362 spent$315,791 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,145,919.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.5M to $11M (+142%).
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: 2017 31% · 2018 26% · 2019 29% · 2020 37% · 2021 43% · 2022 44% · 2023 37% · 2024 31% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE’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. 6 of the last 9 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
Aziz Isham
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $804k → $937k.
9 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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 MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
29% 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 MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 33% · 2019 28% · 2020 21% · 2021 26% · 2022 32% · 2023 32% — 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
30% of AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
72% of AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$588k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$446k
- National Endowment for the Arts$110k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: 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 MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE?
- AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,082,170 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($1,637,023). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $9,082,170 in grants to AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE?
- ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,637,023 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 85 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