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EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE

EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE (Indiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,997,068 to it, the largest being ARNOLD E MENKE MEMORIAL TR ($1,731,592). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.2M
Revenue FY2024
17
Funders on record
$4.0M
Grants received
$22M
Net assets
14/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%

Against its field

EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 94 ($1.6M) Expenses 94 ($2.0M) Net assets 94 ($20M)2019 Revenue 138 ($2.4M) Expenses 90 ($2.0M) Net assets 97 ($21M)2020 Revenue 97 ($1.7M) Expenses 76 ($1.6M) Net assets 97 ($21M)2021 Revenue 94 ($1.6M) Expenses 71 ($1.5M) Net assets 98 ($21M)2022 Revenue 99 ($1.7M) Expenses 73 ($1.6M) Net assets 98 ($21M)2023 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 78 ($1.7M) Net assets 98 ($21M)2024 Revenue 185 ($3.2M) Expenses 80 ($1.7M) Net assets 104 ($22M)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (80)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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 (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$431k
17
$389k
18
$444k
19
$50k
20
$111k
21
$143k
22
$41k
23
$1.5M
24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $8k → $419k.

5 of 17 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.

43%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

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; 82% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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.

WI
IN
OH
NJ
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 17%Fundraising 13%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IN

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE?
EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE (Indiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,997,068 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 17 organizations giving $3,997,068 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.

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 17funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing