Indiana · Nonprofit
EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE
EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,007,068 to it, the largest being ARNOLD E MENKE MEMORIAL TR ($1,731,592). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science does
Mission
The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Individual participation in programs, lectures, openings, events, syposiums, tours, outreach programs, and workshops. Served approximately 8,697 visitors on-site, approximately 1,200 people in outreach programs, and an unknown number of persons in virtual attendance.
$1,220,938 spent$137,849 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,220,938.
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 2017 to 2018, from $23M to $21M (−7%).
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 14% · 2018 9% · 2019 8% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 23% · 2023 9% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE’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. 2 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
Jennifer Evans
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $8k → $419k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $263k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE raised.
From the IRS filings of EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 39% · 2019 58% · 2020 60% · 2021 63% · 2022 56% · 2023 58% — 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
70% of EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
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 EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE: 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 EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE?
- EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,007,068 to it, the largest being ARNOLD E MENKE MEMORIAL TR ($1,731,592). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,007,068 in grants to EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE?
- ARNOLD E MENKE MEMORIAL TR is the largest funder on record, with $1,731,592 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 18 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