Idaho · Nonprofit
Boise Art Museum Inc
Boise Art Museum Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,021,738 to it, the largest being William Randolph Hearst Foundation ($150,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Boise Art Museum Inc does
Mission
To create visual arts experiences that engage people and inspire learning through exceptional exhibitions, collections, and educational opportunities.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions The museum presents a range of art exhibitions annually, addressing a wide spectrum of artists, artistic media, time periods, and styles, all of which reflect diversity and excellence in the visual arts.
$829,849 spent$209,112 earned by the program67% of program spendingEducation The museum's education programs provide visitors with opportunities to have meaningful experiences with original works of art. Lectures, tours, classes, camps, outreach, catalogues, interpretive text panels, audio tours, handouts, in-gallery materials, videos, and teacher education enhance exhibitions and meet the learning needs of people of all ages and abilities.
$342,202 spent$57,876 earned by the program28% of program spendingArt Collection Boise Art Museum is the only nationally accredited collecting art museum in Idaho that actively collects and conserves visual art. The museum has a growing collection of 4,298 art objects comprised of modern and contemporary American art, including artists from Idaho and the Northwest, as well as Asian and African art.
$64,877 spent$25,665 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,236,928.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.9M to $5.8M (+18%).
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 6% · 2018 8% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 22% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% · 2024 5% · 2025 11% · 2026 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of Boise Art Museum Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 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
Melanie Fales
Executive Director/CEO
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $33k → $104k.
3 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Boise Art Museum Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
Boise Art Museum Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 61% · 2019 29% · 2020 23% · 2021 23% · 2022 50% · 2023 43% — 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
48% of Boise Art Museum Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
64% of Boise Art Museum Inc's grant income comes from Idaho funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Boise Art Museum Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 36 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 36 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Government funding Boise Art Museum Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $606k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$466k
- National Endowment for the Arts$120k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$20k
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 Boise Art Museum 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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Boise Art Museum Inc: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Boise Art Museum Inc?
- Boise Art Museum Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,021,738 to it, the largest being William Randolph Hearst Foundation ($150,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Boise Art Museum Inc have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,021,738 in grants to Boise Art Museum Inc, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Boise Art Museum Inc?
- William Randolph Hearst Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Boise Art Museum Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 36 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