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ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION

ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,247,377 to it, the largest being TYSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,500,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$8.2M
Funders on record
50
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$62M
30/50 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation does

Mission

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation was created by the arkansas museum of fine arts in 1972 to manage and administer an endowment fund for the benefit of the museum and to hold legal title to the collection of art objects.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation's mission is to support the operation of and to provide a stable source of income to the arkansas museum of fine arts.

    $9,575,741 spentof which $6,857,929 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,575,741.

02The 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 ($7.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($32M)2018 Revenue 708 ($52M) Expenses 106 ($5.1M) Net assets 245 ($78M)2019 Revenue 473 ($35M) Expenses 231 ($11M) Net assets 315 ($100M)2021 Revenue 274 ($20M) Expenses 836 ($40M) Net assets 266 ($85M)2022 Revenue 193 ($14M) Expenses 598 ($29M) Net assets 205 ($65M)2023 Revenue 219 ($16M) Expenses 494 ($24M) Net assets 190 ($61M)2024 Revenue 113 ($8.2M) Expenses 199 ($9.6M) Net assets 193 ($62M)
2017201820192021202220232024
Revenue (113)Expenses (199)Net assets (193)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $34M to $81M (+138%).

$34M
$81M
$103M
$93M
$69M
$66M
$68M
2017201820192021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2021 21% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.5M
’17
$47M
’18
$23M
’19
−$20M
’21
−$15M
’22
−$7.8M
’23
−$1.4M
’24
5.5
months of
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.

Board chair

Warren Stephens

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820192021202220232024
Listed11111111101010
Joined·+1+1·+0+0+0
No longer listed·11·100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $317k → $1.5M.

17 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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

ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% 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

12%
largest funder
33%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 76% · 2019 45% · 2020 36% · 2021 28% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% — 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

53% of ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

68% of ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

IL
NY
NJ
NE
MO
DE
AR
NC
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $257k on record.

Federal$257k
grants $257kcontracts $0
21
22
24
25
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$205k
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$52k

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 ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION

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 Arkansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AR

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts · exempt
  • Blossomoutreach22 Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION?
ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,247,377 to it, the largest being TYSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,500,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $12,247,377 in grants to ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION?
TYSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 50 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