Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC
GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,979,138 to it, the largest being ANVERSE INC ($9,544,904). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Georgia Museums Inc does
Mission
Georgia museums, inc. Is a georgia nonprofit organization which operates the bartow history museum ("bhm"), booth western art museum, tellus science museum and savoy automobile museum. The booth educates, entertains and inspires growth through the exploration of western art, popular culture, and american heritage in a welcoming environment. The bhm's mission is to preserve bartow county's history, educate a diverse community of students and visitors about its unique heritage, and to celebrate its sense of place through exhibits, programs and outreach activities presented in an engaging and pleasant manner. Tellus' mission is "because science matters, we engage, educate and inspire visitors to make scientific connections through dynamic exhibits and enriching experiences." the mission of savoy automobile museum is to "provide opportunities for visitors to explore the history and diversity of automobiles through changing exhibits, educational programs and engaging experiences."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Booth Western Art Museum is a 120,000 square-foot museum with galleries of western contemporary art. Additional galleries feature Presidential letters and photographs, American West art, and fine art photography. In addition to the permanent galleries, there are four galleries with temporary exhibits. Booth offers evening lectures, art for lunch programs, and art classes at the nearby Booth Art Academy regularly during the year. The museum also has a nearby satellite gallery that sells artwork from local artists, as well as prints, posters, and books. During fiscal year 2025, 35,886 individuals visited the museum. During the school year 2024-2025, 16,639 students participated in an educational program or experience. The Booth Western Art Museum has 1,572 active members.
$2,213,006 spent$896,995 earned by the program32% of program spendingTellus Science Museum, a 120,000 square-foot museum dedicated to science, has a mineral gallery, fossil gallery, interactive children's science gallery, transportation gallery, gem panning area, and a fossil dig area. Within the museum there are three temporary exhibit galleries hosting changing exhibits during the year. In addition, there is a digital planetarium with shows throughout the day. Visitors can also visit the solar house and other outdoor exhibits. In fiscal year 2025, Tellus had 150,003 visitors, including 15,828 people seeing a planetarium show. During the school year 2024-2025, 43,474 students participated in student educational programs. Tellus Science Museum has 3,606 active members.
$2,705,760 spent$3,126,834 earned by the program39% of program spendingSavoy Automobile Museum celebrates automobiles throughout the 66,000 square foot museum with one permanent gallery as well as three temporary galleries with changing exhibits such as women in motorsports, 75 Years of Porsche, etc. The museum hosted one local car show this past year. There is a beautiful artwork collection that celebrates automobiles located throughout the facility. An additional 34,000 square-foot storage building on the campus houses permanent collection vehicles when not on exhibit. During the fiscal year 2025, 66,718 individuals visited the museum. Savoy Museum has 3,112 active members.
$1,735,089 spent$759,723 earned by the program25% of program spendingBartow History Museum is a 10,000 square-foot museum located in a restored 1869 courthouse in Downtown Cartersville. Visitors have the opportunity to learn about the local history in Bartow County and surrounding area through exhibits featuring artifacts that trace more than 200 years of human activity. Changing exhibits, educational programs, lectures, and workshops throughout the year, help tell the story as well. Near the museum is the archives and research library, which is open for public research. During fiscal year 2025, 4,127 individuals visited the museum and/or archives. During the 2024-2025 school year, 5,720 students participated in student educational programs. The Bartow History Museum has 600 active members.
$207,446 spent$41,608 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,861,301.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $35M to $44M (+27%).
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: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Seth Hopkins
Executive director - booth
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $44k → $3.0M.
12 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 37% · 2019 38% · 2020 31% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 87% — 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
60% of GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
98% of GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GEORGIA MUSEUMS 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- anverse inc · exempt
- Booth Art Fund Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC?
- GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,979,138 to it, the largest being ANVERSE INC ($9,544,904). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $10,979,138 in grants to GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC?
- ANVERSE INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,544,904 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 28 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