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ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC
ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC (Florida) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,338,666 to it, the largest being TING TSUNG & WEI FONG CHAO FOUNDATION ($450,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College Inc does
Mission
As an arts leader in florida, the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College Inc (the agb) educates and inspires the community through creative and diverse exhibitions and the acquisition and care of a permanent collection; cultural alliances and compelling events and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The primary program is to provide a facility for public and academic appreciation of the arts and art history and to improve the quality of life in our community and beyond through cultural and visual arts programming. The agb is proud to be accredited by the american alliance of museums and to partner with the smithsonian institution as a smithsonian affiliate museum and with florida southern college as its college museum. As an academic community museum, we proudly serve and strive to engage learners of all ages. Our collection featuring nearly 3,000 works of art and year-round exhibition and educational programming bring visitors from across the globe and have established the agb as a respected and well-known resource and site for exceptional arts experiences.
$619,216 spentof which $568 as grants72% of program spendingThrough our robust education programming we strive to bring people and art together with unique programs that range from visual arts classes and art laboratories to hands-on trainings with artists and art appreciation lectures. With grant and sponsor support, we are able to provide specialized educational programs throughout the year to community members of all ages and income brackets at little or no cost to them. On-site programming includes docent-led tours and visits to the agb for all 4th-grade students in polk county schools; art classes for all ages and skill levels; fall, spring, and summer art camps for children ages 7 and up (scholarships are available); polk county student art exhibitions and award receptions for exhibiting students of all grade levels; (continued on schedule o)lectures, workshops, performances, and other special events related to our exhibitions; and academic enrichment for florida southern college students across disciplines.
$238,410 spentof which $1,000 as grants$122,318 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $857,626.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $5.7M to $6.3M (+10%).
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: 2018 15% · 2019 13% · 2020 15% · 2021 35% · 2022 50% · 2023 40% · 2024 30% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC’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. 8 of the last 8 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
Dr H Alexander Rich
Executive director & chief
Board chair
Lynda Buck
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $115k → $169k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE 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
ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 51% · 2019 31% · 2020 29% · 2021 45% · 2022 83% · 2023 30% — 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
35% of ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $602k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% 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 1 related entity
- Florida Southern College · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC?
- ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC (Florida) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,338,666 to it, the largest being TING TSUNG & WEI FONG CHAO FOUNDATION ($450,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,338,666 in grants to ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC?
- TING TSUNG & WEI FONG CHAO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHLEY GIBSON BARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 23 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