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BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM

BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM (Kentucky) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,259,690 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($318,150). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$562k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$3.6M
14/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Behringer Crawford Museum does

Mission

Cultural & historic museum in covington, ky. The museum is a center for the collection, presentation, study, and enjoyment of the natural, cultural, and visual &performing arts heritage of northern kentucky; in order to preserve the regional history for the benefit of present and future generations

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of a cultural & natural museum under a lease agreement with the city of covington, the museum is a center for the collection, presentation, study, and enjoyment of the natural, cultural, and visual and performing arts heritage of northern kentucky as part of the ohio valley; in order to preserve the regional history for the benefit of present & future generations.

    $536,968 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $536,968.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($407k) Expenses 100 ($453k) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 129 ($526k) Expenses 113 ($510k) Net assets 99 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 163 ($662k) Expenses 135 ($609k) Net assets 102 ($3.6M)2024 Revenue 178 ($723k) Expenses 135 ($611k) Net assets 105 ($3.7M)2025 Revenue 138 ($562k) Expenses 146 ($662k) Net assets 103 ($3.6M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (138)Expenses (146)Net assets (103)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 2023 to 2024, from $3.6M to $3.7M (+3%).

$3.6M
$3.6M
$3.6M
$3.7M
$3.7M
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2022 15% · 2023 34% · 2024 20% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$46k
’21
$16k
’22
$53k
’23
$112k
’24
−$101k
’25
6.4
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.

Chief executive

Laurie Risch

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed2221222119
Joined·+5+3+1+1
No longer listed·6223
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $46k → $168k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM’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

BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

57% 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 BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM.

25%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 76% · 2019 31% · 2020 73% · 2021 40% · 2022 19% · 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

67% of BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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

BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 4 states in all.

MN
OH
CA
KY

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $479k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 16%Fundraising 3%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM?
BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM (Kentucky) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,259,690 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($318,150). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,259,690 in grants to BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $318,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 18 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