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ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC
ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,281,178 to it, the largest being RESNICK FOUNDATION ($12,000,000). 118 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 189
- Grants received
- $72M
- Net assets
- $286M
What Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc does
Mission
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions, publications & collections: the museum presents contemporary and historical art in all media in a rotating exhibition program that typically presents 10-15 exhibitions and publishes 2-6 books each year. In 2025 the museum presented an exhibition about jazz icon alice coltrane; a retrospective of the late los angeles artist noah davis; a multi-gallery installation by artist lawrence lek; and the 7th edition of its acclaimed made in l.a. Biennial. The museum also presented three hammer projects by international artists lap-see lam, renata petersen, and colectivo cherani. The museum is also the steward of five collections: the hammer contemporary collection, a growing collection of international contemporary art since 1960; the ucla grunwald center for the graphic arts collection, one of america's finest collections of works on paper, containing more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists' books from the renaissance to the present; the armand hammer collection, an impressive collection of european and american paintings and drawings reflecting the interests and passion of the museum's founder, armand hammer; the armand hammer daumier and contemporaries…
$20,910,025 spent$642,172 earned by the program75% of program spendingPublic & academic programs: the hammer's 300+ programs each year are designed to spark meaningful encounters with art and ideas. They include lectures, symposia, university outreach, film series, readings, family events, tours, and musical performances. Program highlights included the turiya rising concert series in conjunction with "alice coltrane, monument eternal; a popular series of art history lectures by john walsh; and popular series like the moma contenders film series and hammer summer concerts. Hammer museums program details are available on our website, www.hammer.ucla.edu.
$7,107,834 spent$43,060 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,017,859.
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 2017 to 2018, from $238M to $277M (+16%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC’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. 5 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.
Board chair
Marcy Carsey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 42 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $7.1M → $9.2M.
21 of 189 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 189 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
ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
33% 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 ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 51% · 2019 28% · 2020 43% · 2021 58% · 2022 18% · 2023 31% — 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
44% of ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
65% of ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 42 funders to 71 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$175k
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 ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Hammer F&B LLC · disregarded
- The Regents of the University of California · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC?
- ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,281,178 to it, the largest being RESNICK FOUNDATION ($12,000,000). 118 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 189 organizations giving $72,281,178 in grants to ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC, 118 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC?
- RESNICK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 189 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