Iowa · Nonprofit
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc (Iowa) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,138,664 to it, the largest being THOMAS & LINDA KOEHN FOUNDATION ($1,190,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $172M
What Edmundson Art Foundation Inc does
Mission
The des moines art center engages diverse local, national, and international audiences with the art of today through its museum and school, adding to the cultural record through collections and programs. The des moines art center believes in the power of art to inspire personal transformation. We commit to exhibit and explore thought provoking modern and contemporary art. We connect people and art by offering opportunities for feeling, imagining, dreaming and creating. We promote curiosity and embrace critical and empathetic thinking with a spirit of openness. We strive to be a welcoming and equitable cultural resource. This effort to ensure access to art for everyone has been a core tenet of the museum since its founding. Admission is always free for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
2024 contained a roster of exhibitions highlighting artists from around the globe and across time, revealing how interconnected we are through family ties, shared spaces, and environmental changes that impact the entire world. Alongside our staff curators, we welcomed exhibitions organized by fitsum shebeshe for independent curators international (states of becoming), featured a print gallery exhibition (coexist) organized by curatorial intern najla evans, and iowa artists 2025 and minor key were co-curated by artists b. Robert moore and samantha box respectively. Kicking off 2024, states of becoming examined the dynamic forces that shape artistic practices for a group of african artists working in the u.s. Curated by fitsum shebeshe, the exhibition connects conditions of relocation, resettling, and assimilation which inform discussions around identity construction in the contemporary african diaspora. For shebeshe, the exhibition grew out of lived experience and firsthand knowledge of the weight of cultural assimilation, since he moved from addis ababa, ethiopia to baltimore in 2016. Confronted with a different society, the curator developed a wide range of existential questions…
$7,235,817 spent$22,711 earned by the program77% of program spendingWith a focus on belonging, the des moines art center engaged in a variety of dynamic and meaningful events, programs, and opportunities throughout 2024. Our efforts centered on being a vibrant space for our community to gather, sharing our unique creative selves, and collectively creating work that resonates beyond our walls and into the future. The museum and pappajohn sculpture park welcomed 346,568 visitors throughout 2024. Our keystone family events, day of the dead (in its 24th year) and our biannual entirely kids days, explored the themes of "africa "stories told." these events collectively brought in over 3,800 visitors who experienced our campus through hands-on, artist-facilitated, family-friendly programming. This contributed to a community-created sense of welcome and creative participation for all ages. A few of the flagship museum learning and engagement programs are the my voice program, high school days, and creativity days. My voice served 12 students and is an art center mentor-based program in partnership with the by degrees foundation that empowers young artists to explore their creative potential and find their unique artistic voice. The program, supported by…
$1,125,269 spent12% of program spendingOur efforts include providing art-making education and classes through our studio arts school. In 2024, the studio department provided 162 (31% increase from 2023) adult classes (18+), 159 (57% increase from 2023) youth classes (ages 3-18), and 8 weeks of 2-a-day camps that served 904 (6% increase from 2023) unique students in our area from ages 5 - 16. Through our school and vast network of 46 teaching artists, we can engage with numerous social and human services within the surrounding community. We offer on and off-site school enrichment programming that aims to create opportunities for child-centered learning and family engagement. The art center's studio program provides multiple art-making mediums from painting and drawing to metals and ceramics through both tuition-based art classes and free art programming thanks to our scholarship program, collaborating organizations, and donation network. In 2024, we provided 193 (33% increase from 2023) scholarships to youth and adults in our surrounding community.
$1,050,854 spent$452,222 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,411,940.
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 $124M to $166M (+34%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 5% · 2022 12% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of Edmundson Art Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Kelly Baum
Executive director
Board chair
Darren Jirsa
Chairperson and ex-officio
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $211k → $1.1M.
12 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $17M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Anna K Meredith Endowment Trust); $9.1M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn). These are real filings, and they are not money Edmundson Art Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Edmundson Art Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 18% · 2019 17% · 2020 23% · 2021 75% · 2022 31% · 2023 31% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of Edmundson Art Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
76% of Edmundson Art Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $850k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc is better cushioned than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Edmundson Art Foundation Inc 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$89k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$6k
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 Edmundson Art Foundation 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Edmundson Art Foundation 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc?
- Edmundson Art Foundation Inc (Iowa) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,138,664 to it, the largest being THOMAS & LINDA KOEHN FOUNDATION ($1,190,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Edmundson Art Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $5,138,664 in grants to Edmundson Art Foundation Inc, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Edmundson Art Foundation Inc?
- THOMAS & LINDA KOEHN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Edmundson Art Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 76 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