Alabama · Nonprofit
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $755,935 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Hugh Kaul Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared funders
- Alabama Humanities Allianceportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $116k → $51k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST’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
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 28% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 90% · 2022 45% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
53% of BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $355k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Hugh Kaul Foundationlocalportfolio matchAL · funds 72 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- Alabama Humanities Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Howard Gilman Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 120 organizations that share your funders
- Linn-Henley Charitable Trust Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Goodrich Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mississippi Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hearin - Chandler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pleiad Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dunn-French Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Birmingham Museum of Art · exempt
- Art Fund Inc · exempt
- Birmingham Museum of Art Foundation · exempt
- Bma Support Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST?
- BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $755,935 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $755,935 in grants to BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing