Washington · Nonprofit
CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM
CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM (Washington) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,619,946 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($374,455). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Moccasin Lake Foundationshared funders
- Art Alliance for Contemporary Glassportfolio match
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $168k → $151k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART 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
CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
62% 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 CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 23% · 2019 45% · 2020 62% · 2021 41% · 2022 40% · 2023 62% — 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
18% of CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
62% of CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $787k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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. Your 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Moccasin Lake Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 97 organizations that share your funders
- Art Alliance for Contemporary Glassportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Lehman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Souls Grown Deep Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leads Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wolf Kahn Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Incportfolio 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 CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM: 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 CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM?
- CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM (Washington) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,619,946 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($374,455). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,619,946 in grants to CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $374,455 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30funders 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