California · Nonprofit
CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,554,688 to it, the largest being WAYNE THIEBAUD FOUNDATION ($5,191,570). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Crocker Art Museum Association does
Mission
The crocker art museum is dedicated to promoting an awareness and enthusiasm for human experience through art. We measure our success by our ability to enrich the intellectual and cultural life of the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The museum served 207,702 people through onsite visitation and other programs.
$4,260,536 spentof which $2,767,800 as grants$793,334 earned by the program42% of program spending11 special exhibitions were held. $1,603,230.04 was spent to add 1,034 works of art to the permanent collection, enabling the museum to preserve a lasting legacy for the future.
$3,425,812 spent$5,489 earned by the program34% of program spendingFacility improvements, maintenance, and rental of 1868 purpose built museum designated as a landmark building by the american institute of architects and later additions.paid design refinement costs on a 125,000 square foot addition to the crocker art museum, the addition to the museum opened to the public in 2010.the expanded facility greatly improves museum operations and the visitor experience.continued progress on capital campaign.
$1,023,126 spent$258,949 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe museum offered audiences, of all backgrounds and ages, the opportunity to look at, respond to, and think about art through educational programs inspired by the museum's collections, special exhibitions, and contemporary issues. The museum creates programs for adult, youth, family, and school-based audiences, including but not limited to studio art classes, film and lecture series, festivals, family programs, teacher training, school tours and outreach. The museum's educational services also include the operation of the art ark (a mobile art center for school-aged youth) and tot land (a special creative space for families with children five and under).sold art catalogues and other educational materials to foster an interest in art.
$1,443,839 spent$771,754 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,153,313.
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 2017 to 2018, from $18M to $27M (+52%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 3% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION’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
Lial Jones
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $450k → $633k.
13 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $12M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Crocker Art Museum Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 25% · 2019 36% · 2020 36% · 2021 53% · 2022 88% · 2023 23% — 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
43% of CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
79% of CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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 CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $470k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$396k
- National Endowment for the Arts$74k
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 CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
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 California
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
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Crocker Museum Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Crocker Art Museum Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: 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 CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,554,688 to it, the largest being WAYNE THIEBAUD FOUNDATION ($5,191,570). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $11,554,688 in grants to CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- WAYNE THIEBAUD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,191,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 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