Arkansas · Nonprofit
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc (Arkansas) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,136,390 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($83,258,992). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $131M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $181M
- Net assets
- $2.1B
What Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc does
Mission
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art ("CBMAA") welcomes all to celebrate the American Spirit In a setting that unites the power of art with the beauty of nature. CBMAA explores the unfolding story of America by actively collecting, exhibiting, interpreting and preserving outstanding works of art that Illuminates America's heritage and artistic possibilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, CBMAA acquired 268 works of art. By classification 144 prints, 47 sculptures, 22 ceramics, 14 paintings, 11 time-based media works, 7 high-value books, 6 photographs, 5 decorative arts works, 4 mixed media works, 4 textiles, 2 installations, 1 drawing, and 1 watercolor were acquired. In 2024, CBMAA borrowed 185 objects from 31 lenders. CBMAA loaned 58 objects to 20 institutions during 2024 across the United States and Europe. Conservation efforts in 2024 included: Paintings conservators conducted treatments and examinations of 69 paintings over 3 visits to the museum. Objects conservator conducted treatments and examinations of 70 sculptures over 2 visits to the museum. Works on paper conservator examined 43 works on paper over 1 visit to the museum. These significant conservation treatments were performed on-site: Yayoi Kusama/Flowers that Bloom Now (2018.5, sculpture); George Dombek/Tour de Apple Tree (2010.58, sculpture); Rockwell Kent/The Newfoundlander (2018.7, drawing); and Chiura Obata/Dust Storm, Topaz Relocation Center (2023.21, watercolor). In addition, two artworks were conserved off-site: Brian Tolle/Tempest (2017.15) and Melvin Edwards/Dancing in Nigeria…
$24,799,743 spent$289,590 earned by the program66% of program spendingIn 2024, CBMAA welcomed 704,257 guests and presented several collection focus shows, and three major exhibitions, including: Exquisite Creatures, Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art, Time Loop by Klip Collective: A Forest Light Experience, Knowing the West: Visual Legacies of the American West, and American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges. Exquisite Creatures was an exhibition by artist and naturalist Christopher Marley that explored the connection between art, nature, and science. Through three-dimensional works made of animal, mineral, and plant specimens arranged in precise geometric patterns, Marley revealed the beauty and diversity of the natural world while inspiring wonder and a desire for preservation. Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art examined the mid-century Indian Space Painters, the Indigenous visual culture that inspired them, and modern Native artists who built on these explorations through their own heritage. The exhibition reconfigured the history of American art by showing its foundations in Indigenous space, aesthetically, geographically, and socio-politically. The exhibition toured to one additional…
$7,274,330 spent$427,889 earned by the program19% of program spendingIn 2024, CBMAA was able to fulfill its mission of providing access to the arts through a variety of educational programs to the public, which reached 312,608 participants. Classes and Workshops are offered for all ages and varying skill levels, and include a variety of workshops in media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, and multimedia, in addition to nature topics. Attendance = 2,491 Drop-In programs are non-ticketed and planned primarily for multigenerational audiences. These include large-scale events Trick Art Treat as well as drop-in artmaking on the weekends and school break programming. Attendance = 92,453 Film, Performance & Evening events are primarily targeted toward college and adult audiences, and include multidisciplinary arts such as music, theatre, dance, and film. Attendance = 5,209 Lectures and Talks include gallery conversations, nature talks, panel discussions, and exhibition lectures. Attendance = 5,844 Our School Visit program serves K-12 and college students, onsite and online, and aligns with curriculum. Attendance = 65,945 Teacher Professional Development programs offer continuing education credits through a variety of offerings, including Saturday…
$5,174,247 spent$1,021,200 earned by the program14% of program spendingLibrary program
$241,152 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,489,472.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5B to $1.7B (+19%).
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
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
Rod Bigelow
Executive Director
Board chair
Olivia Walton
Board director & chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $11M.
23 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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: $39M 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 85 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 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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
39% 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
74% of Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc's grant income 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 17 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
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
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
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 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc?
- Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc (Arkansas) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,136,390 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($83,258,992). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $181,136,390 in grants to Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc, 41 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.
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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 85 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