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CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION

CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,398,110 to it, the largest being WAYNE THIEBAUD FOUNDATION ($5,191,570). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$11M
Revenue FY2025
66
Funders on record
$11M
Grants received
$36M
Net assets
33/66 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Against its field

CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($18M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 123 ($22M) Expenses 92 ($13M) Net assets 155 ($26M)2019 Revenue 55 ($9.8M) Expenses 69 ($9.7M) Net assets 156 ($26M)2020 Revenue 68 ($12M) Expenses 60 ($8.4M) Net assets 179 ($30M)2021 Revenue 51 ($9.2M) Expenses 46 ($6.4M) Net assets 197 ($33M)2022 Revenue 83 ($15M) Expenses 91 ($13M) Net assets 207 ($35M)2023 Revenue 75 ($14M) Expenses 75 ($10M) Net assets 227 ($38M)2024 Revenue 68 ($12M) Expenses 93 ($13M) Net assets 225 ($38M)2025 Revenue 63 ($11M) Expenses 93 ($13M) Net assets 217 ($36M)
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Revenue (63)Expenses (93)Net assets (217)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.0M
17
$9.2M
18
$147k
19
$3.8M
20
$2.8M
21
$2.3M
22
$3.1M
23
$812k
24
$1.7M
25
8.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 19 funders, grant income rose $450k → $486k.

12 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)19% 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 66 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 46% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

32% 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.

46%
largest funder
65%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 25% · 2019 36% · 2020 36% · 2021 53% · 2022 88% · 2023 29%broadly stable.

“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; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M 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.

03Its place in the field

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 66 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

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.

Federal$470k
grants $470kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 11%Fundraising 11%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

CA

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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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 CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,398,110 to it, the largest being WAYNE THIEBAUD FOUNDATION ($5,191,570). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $11,398,110 in grants to CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION, 33 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 66funders 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