New York · Nonprofit
HECKSCHER MUSEUM
HECKSCHER MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,058,851 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($161,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Heckscher Museum does
Mission
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The museum presents original exhibition content and scholarship that speak to a broad and diverse audience. Four exhibitions per year explore compelling facets of the human experience, featuring artwork from the permanent collection and loans from other institutions, collectors, and artists reaching over 100,000 visitors in person, and online, each year. Demonstrating the museum's commitment to bringing attention to underrepresented voices, these exhibitions highlight artwork by racially and ethnically diverse artists and other marginalized groups. The permanent collection is comprised of more than 2,300 artworks spanning the nineteenth century to the present. Expenses include conservation, care and maintenance of the museum's collection, cultorial research and scholarship, exhibition design and development.
$1,072,843 spent50% of program spendingPublic programs serve both the local and wider community through programming for adults, families and children including lectures, concerts, book groups and hands-on workshops. Over a hundred in-person and virtual public programs conducted annually, attended by 15,000 children, families, and adults. These include: dual language family hours; youth ambassadors; "lunar new year", "pride and juneteenth celebrations; first friday concert series; museum summer palette cafe; and the annual "draw out" community arts festival. Public programs are developed in collaboration with community stakeholders, leaders, and volunteers. The museum serves as a community center for public programs and gatherings for the community as a whole.
$620,367 spentof which $200 as grants$64,712 earned by the program29% of program spendingHuntington education programs offer multifaceted programming to a diverse population reaching more than 6,000 students and 100 schools annually. Long island's best: young artists at the Heckscher Museum continues to provide high school students with in-depth arts learning experiences and is the only professionally presented juried exhibition organized by a long island museum. Seventy-seven schools participated in long island's best education programs leading to the creation of original works of art by the students. The number of student works submitted to the juried competition was 456. Eighty-seven works were selected for exhibition. The five-week exhibit attracted 1,530 visitors and was viewed online by 3,550 unique viewers.
$434,190 spentof which $10,810 as grants20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,127,400.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $9.6M (−16%).
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 19% · 2018 36% · 2019 33% · 2020 45% · 2021 37% · 2022 36% · 2023 32% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of HECKSCHER MUSEUM’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. 6 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
Heather Arnet
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Bruce A Lev
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $37k → $188k.
9 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 HECKSCHER MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
HECKSCHER MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
27% 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 HECKSCHER MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 15% · 2019 13% · 2020 12% · 2021 37% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% — 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
52% of HECKSCHER MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
HECKSCHER MUSEUM draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $514k 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
HECKSCHER MUSEUM's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HECKSCHER MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $280k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$250k
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 HECKSCHER MUSEUM
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 HECKSCHER MUSEUM: 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 HECKSCHER MUSEUM?
- HECKSCHER MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,058,851 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($161,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HECKSCHER MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $2,058,851 in grants to HECKSCHER MUSEUM, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HECKSCHER MUSEUM?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $161,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HECKSCHER MUSEUM 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 62 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