Kansas · Nonprofit
COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC
COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,000 to it, the largest being STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $264k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Coutts Memorial Museum of Art Inc does
Mission
To support, encourage, and promote art, artists, and art education in the el dorado community, throughout the region, and among its visitors (continued on sch. O).the museum aspires to provide a stimulating and inspiring cultural and educational environment. It is dedicated to affording a unique visitor experience and is committed to continuous improvement in every aspect of its collections, programs, interpretation, and presentation. The museum aims to serve its diverse public as a dynamic, innovative, and welcoming cultural arts center of learning for all ages, heightening public discovery, understanding, and appreciation of the arts world. It is organized for the promotion of a greater understanding, education, and appreciation of all forms of art, and in particular paintings and sculptures.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The coutts memorial museum of art, inc is engaged with the community with the purpose of preserving, displaying, and teaching art. The museum houses over 2,000 pieces of art from around the world in their collection, preserving them such that their educational role can be extended as long as possible. Pieces are displayed for public consumption to fulfill the mission of supporting art and art education. On top of rotating out parts of the collections to put on display, the museum actively receives temporary exhibits in order to widen the diversity of art displayed, as well as to give new and wider audiences to the artists. In order to increase the number of constituents who can appreciate the museum's art, they also loan art pieces out to other institutions and museums.
$174,901 spent$7,411 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $174,901.
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 $7.8M to $7.6M (−2%).
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.
27% of COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Thea Howard
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $53k.
From the IRS filings of COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC’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
COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 80% · 2022 89% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
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 COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART 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 COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC?
- COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,000 to it, the largest being STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $104,000 in grants to COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC?
- STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUTTS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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