Kansas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC
FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,250 to it, the largest being TEXTRON CHARITABLE TRUST DTD 122353 ($1,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Friends of the Wichita Art Museum Inc does
Mission
To support the wichita art museum programs, to establish a permanent endowment for art acquisitions, exhibitions, and educational opportunities for the wichita metropolitan community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization has established four funds (namely the general endowment fund, library endowment fund, howard e. Wooden lecture series endowment fund, and special gift fund), at the wichita community foundation exclusively for the benefit of the museum. During 2025, no outside contributions to endowment funds were recieved. At december 31, 2025 the endowment funds have a combined value of approximately 3.4 million. The endowmment funds provided approximately 152,000 of support to the wichita art museum in 2025.
Art trips and events are conducted to promote the relationship between the wichita art museum and the general public by initiating and implementing programs, activities, and events that promote participation and generate financial support of the organization and the wichita art museum.
$23,979 spent$17,115 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,979.
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 2024 to 2025, from $101k to $123k (+22%).
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.
4% of FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC’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.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM 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 Kansas
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
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,250 to it, the largest being TEXTRON CHARITABLE TRUST DTD 122353 ($1,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,250 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC?
- TEXTRON CHARITABLE TRUST DTD 122353 is the largest funder on record, with $1,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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