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EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY
EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,883,215 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,438,142). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County does
Mission
The Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County is a not-for-profit organization located in syracuse, new york. Its stated purpose is to conduct cultural, charitable, and educational activities. The museum's support comes primarily from donor contributions and government funding.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education- provides art studio classes for children and adults, guided tours for schools and organizations; slides and traveling exhibions available for schools to borrow; film series; lecture series and demonstrations.
$457,991 spent$64,222 earned by the program20% of program spendingExhibition- functions to collect and/or introduce works of art through education processes; seeks to educate the public through various interpretations and presentations of ideas and objects from past and contemporary civilizations.
$1,761,885 spent$75,266 earned by the program77% of program spendingSales gallery - holds for sale to the public works of local artists and craftsmen, cards, stationary, art publications, etc.
$58,525 spent$36,281 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,278,401.
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 $7.3M to $19M (+165%).
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 10% · 2018 13% · 2019 12% · 2020 6% · 2021 26% · 2022 25% · 2023 28% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY’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. 4 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
Elizabeth Dunbar
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $260k → $71k.
10 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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: $2.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Everson Museum Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY’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
EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 51% · 2019 57% · 2020 47% · 2021 62% · 2022 54% · 2023 75% — 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
50% of EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
59% of EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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
EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY 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 EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $395k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$200k
- National Endowment for the Arts$110k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$85k
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 EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Friends of Everson · exempt
- Everson Museum Foundation Co Keybank Na · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY?
- EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,883,215 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,438,142). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,883,215 in grants to EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY?
- CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,438,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 19 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