Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ERIE ART MUSEUM
ERIE ART MUSEUM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,678,983 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,802,270). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Erie Art Museum does
Mission
The mission of the Erie Art Museum is to promote and advance the visual arts by maintaining a quality art collection, by encouraging art in all its forms, by fostering lifelong art learning, and by building community among artists, art students, and the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions - Erie Art Museum maintains an active program of changing and permanent exhibits which present art from around the world, the work of international, national and regional artists. The exhibits are drawn from the museum's collections, and from loans by artists and other institutions and collectors. They span cultures and time periods, and are aimed at encouraging dialogue and understanding among viewers. They are supplemented by educational programming, including gallery talks and lectures, panel discussions, films, and other presentations dealing with the ideas expressed in the exhibitions.
$790,663 spent$165,641 earned by the program87% of program spendingEducation - the museum's education program encourages lifelong learning in the general public through a variety of program offerings, including studio art classes, workshops, lectures, guided tours, and projects that offer the public art-making opportunities. Studio art classes taught by professional artists offer beginners and amateurs an opportunity to create art in a nurturing environment with quality instruction. The education program specifically addresses preschool through highschool teachers through in-service and professional development programs. The museum hosts interns from all over the united states and beyond in an applied learning situation that enables students to experience the real-world application of their academic learning through participation in museum programming.
$118,145 spent$24,848 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $908,808.
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 $9.2M to $7.8M (−15%).
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 21% · 2018 6% · 2019 14% · 2020 8% · 2021 19% · 2022 28% · 2023 11% · 2024 13% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of ERIE ART MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Laura Domencic
Executive director
Board chair
Angela Mcclimans
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $231k → $280k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 ERIE ART MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
ERIE ART MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 ERIE ART MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 75% · 2019 77% · 2020 76% · 2021 60% · 2022 85% · 2023 92% — 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
42% of ERIE ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
72% of ERIE ART MUSEUM'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 $758k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ERIE ART MUSEUM is better cushioned 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
Organizations like ERIE ART MUSEUM
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 ERIE ART MUSEUM: 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 ERIE ART MUSEUM?
- ERIE ART MUSEUM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,678,983 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,802,270). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ERIE ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,678,983 in grants to ERIE ART MUSEUM, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ERIE ART MUSEUM?
- ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,802,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ERIE ART MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 16 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