Arkansas · Nonprofit
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc (Arkansas) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,852,159 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($83,258,992). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 54 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 54 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
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.
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared funders
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio match
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio match
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.
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.
28% of Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (55% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $11M.
22 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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: $30M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Art Bridges Inc); $25k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 60% · 2019 43% · 2020 43% · 2021 88% · 2022 88% · 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
40% of Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
50% of Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc'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 $86M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 statesis 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.
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 81 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ethel S Brody Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard C Von Hess Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pilara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Art Alliance for Contemporary Glassportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Lehman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
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 Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$740k
- National Endowment for the Arts$175k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$126k
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 Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Gae LLC · disregarded
- Alice L Walton Foundation · exempt
- Alice L Walton School of Medicine · exempt
- Art Bridges Inc · exempt
- Heartland WHOLE HEALTH INSTITUTE · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Crystal Bridges-Museum of American 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.
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 Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc?
- Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc (Arkansas) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,852,159 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($83,258,992). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $172,852,159 in grants to Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $83,258,992 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 81funders 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