Ohio · Nonprofit
COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART
COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART (Ohio) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,707,072 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($24,775,404). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $73M
What Columbus Museum of Art does
Mission
Cma is dedicated to creating its mission of providing "great experiences with great art for everyone".
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions / collections: the museum is guided by a vision to connect people and art; cma holds more than 14,000 works of art including an internationally recognized collection of american and european modernist works.
$8,548,747 spent$682,294 earned by the program57% of program spendingPrograms / learning: cma offers a robust schedule of learning programs for visitors of all ages and supports the needs of educators as they relate to best practices in creativity around imagination, critical thinking, and innovation.
$3,490,174 spent$65,470 earned by the program23% of program spendingCommunity outreach: cma has long prioritized access opportunities to eliminate barriers and reinforce the museum as a community resource for everyone.
$3,013,994 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,052,915.
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 2023 to 2024, from $199M to $94M (−53%).
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 13% · 2018 20% · 2019 7% · 2020 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 9% · 2023 4% · 2024 21% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Brooke A Minto
Executive director & CEO
Board chair
Seanna Connor Walter
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $9.6M.
15 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 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
COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 55% · 2019 65% · 2020 51% · 2021 29% · 2022 51% · 2023 76% — 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.
How long its funders stay
55% of COLUMBUS 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
56% of COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART'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 $20M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $439k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$248k
- National Endowment for the Arts$191k
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 COLUMBUS 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBUS 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 COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART?
- COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART (Ohio) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,707,072 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($24,775,404). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $46,707,072 in grants to COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,775,404 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 103 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