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AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,262,444 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,067,010). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Amigos del Museo del Barrio Inc El Museo del Barrio does
Mission
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Curatorial and exhibitions:el museo del barrio presented three major exhibitions during fiscal year 2025. Flow states la trienal 2024 (october 10, 2024 - march 16, 2025), el museo's second large-scale survey of latinx contemporary art, was organized by chief curator rodrigo moura, curator susanna v. Temkin, and guest curator mara elena ortiz. Featuring artists working across the united states, puerto rico, and extending into new geographies across the americas, the caribbean, europe, and asia, the exhibition explored themes of diaspora, transformation, spiritual connection, collective memory, and cultural exchange. The title flow states referenced both the concept of deep creative focus and the fluidity of geographic and cultural boundaries. The exhibition drew 5,338 visitors from 42 states and 15 countries, and was accompanied by a fully illustrated, bilingual 360-page catalogue. Public programming included curator panels, artist-led events, arts & minds programming for individuals with memory loss, and super sbado family workshops.mestre didi: spiritual form (march 13 - june 30, 2025) was a landmark monographic exhibition presenting over 30 sculptures by the afro-brazilian…
$2,166,902 spent37% of program spendingMuseum/theatre operations:el museo is open thursday through sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. In addition to its exhibitions, educational and public programs, and cultural celebrations, the museum offers visitor amenities including coat check and a museum shop. Visitors are encouraged to reserve timed tickets in advance; walk-ins are accommodated as space permits.el teatro is a historic performance space and one of the few proscenium arch venues on the upper east side of manhattan, featuring an orchestra pit and seating for approximately 500 guests. Recognized for its intimate scale, landmark-quality interiors, and remarkable series of 30-foot murals and stained-glass roundels, el teatro is well suited for concerts, lectures, film screenings, award ceremonies, performances, conferences, and community gatherings. During fiscal year 2025, el museo continued to develop multi-year rental partnerships with cultural and community organizations, supporting both earned revenue growth and the museum's role as a neighborhood anchor. El teatro also hosted programming aligned with the museum's mission, including performances, artist events, and community memorials.the marketing and communications…
$1,851,887 spent$489,468 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe director's office is el museo's third-largest service area in fy25, drives the museum's long-term strategic growth. By providing executive leadership and fostering vital networks with private and public funders, the office ensures the financial and visionary support required to achieve the museum's core mission.
$531,707 spent9% of program spendingDuring fiscal year 2025, el museo del barrio delivered arts education through five integrated program areas: classroom connections, teaching artist residencies, group visits, professional development, and family and intergenerational programs. Bilingual, standards-aligned learning anchored across all five areas supported academic achievement and cultural literacy for new york city students, educators, and families. Programs were taught by el museo's team of freelance teaching artists and museum educators and drew on the museum's permanent collection and rotating exhibitions, including flow states: la trienal 2024, mestre didi: spiritual form, and candida alvarez: circle, point, hoop.off-site partnershipsduring fiscal year 2025, el museo continued its casa (cultural after school adventures) afterschool residencies and in-school partnerships with new york city public schools. Casa supports extensive, bilingual, and culturally relevant school residency partnerships (1214 sessions, 2 hours each) that enrich the afterschool needs of partner schools. Casa partnerships are designed to support and enhance the school's entire learning community, including parents and teachers, by funding a…
$1,310,035 spent$125,582 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,860,531.
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 2020 to 2021, from $8.4M to $19M (+125%).
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 33% · 2018 57% · 2019 59% · 2020 19% · 2021 6% · 2022 33% · 2023 24% · 2024 21% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Patrick Charpenel
Executive director
Board chair
Karla Azen Harwich
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $280k → $2.0M.
12 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 58% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 77% · 2022 61% · 2023 34% — 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
27% of AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
78% of AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO'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. $8.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO?
- AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,262,444 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,067,010). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $20,262,444 in grants to AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,067,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO 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 70 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing