Massachusetts · Nonprofit
DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK
DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,150,160 to it, the largest being THE LINDA HAMMETT ORY & ANDREW ORY CHARITABLE TRUST ($4,344,289). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Decordova and Dana Museum & Park does
Mission
To inspire, educate, and delight with contemporary art from new england and beyond through sculptures in the landscape and museum exhibitions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exibition of art: approximately 55,000 people visited the park and the museum during the fiscal year to view outdoor sculptures, installations, artist projects, and public programs, the details of which may be viewed on the museum website. The indoor exhibition program is temporarily paused due to building renovations. Decordova's permanent collection currently contains 3,634 works of art.
$1,894,525 spent$599,946 earned by the program54% of program spendingArt education: decordova educational programs and events were accessed by more than 3,775 of our visitors, including visiting school groups, teachers, girl scouts, senior groups, and groups of developmentally or physically disabled students and adults. The institution provided around 53 private and public tours led by trained museum guides, approximately 50 free public programs and events, and hosts an embedded preschool on its campus that serves 59 children five days per week, among other educational initiatives offered to a diverse public.
$1,369,689 spent$830,872 earned by the program39% of program spendingCorporate art program: the corporate art program exhibits hundreds of works from regional lending artists at the offices of approximately 50 corporate members who directly support the museum, with more than 50,000 employees and members of the public viewing these works of art.
$217,880 spent$626,286 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,482,094.
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 2020 to 2021, from $16M to $20M (+23%).
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: 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $1.1M.
11 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 78% · 2018 56% · 2019 28% · 2020 40% · 2021 34% · 2022 40% · 2023 40% — 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
31% of DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
53% of DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
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 DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- The Trustees of Reservations · exempt
- Hilltown Land Trust Inc · exempt
- Fruitlands Museums Inc · exempt
- Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK?
- DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,150,160 to it, the largest being THE LINDA HAMMETT ORY & ANDREW ORY CHARITABLE TRUST ($4,344,289). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $11,150,160 in grants to DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK?
- THE LINDA HAMMETT ORY & ANDREW ORY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,344,289 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 38 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