Washington · Nonprofit
CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM
CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,658,396 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($374,455). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $68M
What Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum does
Programs
The museum operates and administers a free public art museum. In addition to the display of the items in its permanent collection, the museum offers many temporary exhibits each year that concentrate on specific artists. Over 50,000 people view these exhibits annually.
$3,888,989 spentFree & fee-based programs are provided to adults and children on topics such as art history, drawing & sculpture, as well as subjects specific to the permanent collection & temporary exhibitions. The museum presents lectures, workshops & guided tours covering a variety of topics. Classes & lectures include our "small frye" series for children, many school programs, and programs for seniors with cognitive issues. Approximately 9,000 adults & children participate in these programs.
$97,716 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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.
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 $61M to $73M (+20%).
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
Jamilee Lacy
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $168k → $151k.
8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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). Top 30 of 31 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
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
63% 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
17% of CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $787k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM?
- CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,658,396 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($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 31 organizations giving $1,658,396 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?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC 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 31 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