Texas · Nonprofit
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art (Texas) receives grants from 200 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,049,333 to it, the largest being The Eugene McDermott Foundation ($13,975,000). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $147M
- Funders on record
- 200
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $402M
What Dallas Museum of Art does
Mission
The Dallas Museum of Art is a space of wonder and discovery where art comes alive.the dma will: - place art and our diverse communities at the center around which all activities radiate - pursue excellence in collecting and programming, present works of art across cultures and time, and be a driving force in contemporary art. - strengthen our position as a prominent, innovative institution, expanding the meaning and possibilities of learning and creativity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Dallas Museum of Art organizes and presents innovative exhibitions and programs for the enrichment of the dallas community. Last year, 15 exhibitions,including four ticketed exhibitions,three of which were nationally and internationally touring exhibitions, and twelve non-ticketed exhibitions and installations that crossed cultures, time periods, and mediums, were presented at the dma or touring. The collection includes over 25,000 objects spanning 5,000 years of human history, originating from cultures on every continent. Primary to the mission of the museum is the stewardship, protection, and development of the collection. To engage visitors to the collection, the museum has developed a growing repository of digital resources accessible on the internet that serves researchers, students, educators, and art enthusiasts. The collection is also at the center of the exhibition and education programs for visitors including gallery talks and art-making activities.
$16,059,623 spent$1,150,115 earned by the program80% of program spendingThe dma offered over 2,000 educational virtual and onsite programs free or at a low cost. C3 programming welcomed 11,457 visitors for the studio programs, pop-up art spot services, summer camps, and other activities. K-12 art education programs like go van gogh and tours of the permanent collection and special exhibitions engaged more than 32,768 students and teachers. Family, youth, and school (fys) programs engaged 46,448 children, students, and teenagers through 1,599 services. The teen ambassador program offered summer volunteer opportunities to 27 dallas-based teenagers to deliver 156 fys service to over 3,157 visitors. Access programs served visitors with developmental disabilities, low vision, autism, and dementia to provide creative, accessible opportunities tailored to their individual needs. Community engagement programming served approximately 6,778 youth, adults, and families through a variety of 206 collaborative services, the majority of which occurred in neighborhoods throughout the city of dallas that are underserved by the arts ecosystem. Programs included citywide youth, wich served 2,214 k-12 students through afterschool workshops, multi-session classes,…
$3,938,482 spentof which $50,040 as grants$803,393 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,998,105.
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 2024 to 2025, from $319M to $412M (+29%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 12% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Dallas Museum of Art’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Doroteo Agustin Arteaga
Executive director
Board chair
Jeffrey S Ellerman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 90 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $3.5M.
14 of 200 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $11M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc); $60k 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 Dallas Museum of Art raised.
From the IRS filings of Dallas Museum of Art’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 200 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
Dallas Museum of Art leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 14% · 2019 12% · 2020 38% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% — 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
55% of Dallas Museum of Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
90% of Dallas Museum of Art's grant income comes from Texas 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 12 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
Dallas Museum of Art runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 43 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Dallas Museum of Art receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
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 Dallas Museum of Art
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% 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
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Foundation for the Arts · exempt
- Mrs S I Munger Endowment Trust · exempt
- Museum Services Corporation · corp_trust
- Museum Beverages Inc · corp_trust
- Art-Facts Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dallas Museum of Art: 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 Dallas Museum of Art?
- Dallas Museum of Art (Texas) receives grants from 200 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,049,333 to it, the largest being The Eugene McDermott Foundation ($13,975,000). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dallas Museum of Art have?
- IRS filings report 200 organizations giving $45,049,333 in grants to Dallas Museum of Art, 124 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dallas Museum of Art?
- The Eugene McDermott Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $13,975,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dallas Museum of Art find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 200 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing