Iowa · Nonprofit
CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART
CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART (Iowa) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,250,289 to it, the largest being ESTHER & ROBERT ARMSTRONG CHARITABLE TR ($655,253). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Cedar Rapids Museum of Art does
Mission
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (crma) maintains and operates an art museum with a permanent collection of approximately 8,000 works of art. Crma has sixteen galleries in which it organizes a dozen or more exhibitions annually. Crma is open six days a week and receives more than 30,000 visitors annually, including several thousand children. Many educational programs are held at the museum and at offsite locations, including public libraries. Crma also owns the original grant wood studio, a nearby historic house property where the american artist lived from 1924-1935. The studio is open for free tours on most weekends april through december.
$1,121,699 spent$47,287 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,121,699.
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 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $11M (−7%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2021 9% · 2022 2% · 2023 9% · 2024 6% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART’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 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.
Chief executive
Ulmer Sean
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $39k → $82k.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART raised.
From the IRS filings of CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART’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
CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 52% · 2019 60% · 2020 36% · 2021 94% · 2022 20% · 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
56% of CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
77% of CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k 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
CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART: 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 CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART?
- CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART (Iowa) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,250,289 to it, the largest being ESTHER & ROBERT ARMSTRONG CHARITABLE TR ($655,253). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,250,289 in grants to CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART?
- ESTHER & ROBERT ARMSTRONG CHARITABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $655,253 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing