Connecticut · Nonprofit
HILL-STEAD MUSEUM
HILL-STEAD MUSEUM (Connecticut) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,899,187 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($868,135). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Hill-Stead Museum does
Mission
Hill-Stead Museum (hsm), a nat'l historic landmark, serves diverse audiences in ct and beyond as a welcoming place for learning, reflection and enjoyment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and visitor servicesHill-Stead Museum serves as a destination for learners of all ages and offers nearly 7,000 public tours each year in art, architecture, and gardens within the context of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since opening to the public in 1947, over 1 million visitors have toured the pope-riddle house, explored the 152-acre grounds, and participated in art, literature, and nature programs. In keeping with the pope-riddle family's enjoyment of cultural pursuits, hsm offered a wide variety of programming including concerts, exhibitions, camps, workshops, lectures/panels, and festivals.
$672,280 spent$406,380 earned by the program50% of program spendingCollections and conservationhill-stead's 1901 country home, characterzied by a 33,000 square foot, 36 room interior and white clapboard exterior with mount vernon veranda, is considered "perhaps the finest colonial revival house and museum in the united states" (national historic landmark report). Established in 1946 as a cultural resource for the public in perpetuity, hsm is one of the nation's few remaining representations of early 20th-century country place estates. Hsm boasts french impressionist masterpieces - four by claude monet, three by edgar degas - and notable works by edouard manet, mary cassatt, and james mcneill whistler, among others. Collections include 250 prints and photographs, 290 ceramics, 400 pieces of furniture, 3,300 books and 16,000+ archival
$673,730 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,346,010.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.9M to $11M (+38%).
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 3% · 2018 6% · 2019 0% · 2020 22% · 2021 46% · 2022 20% · 2023 10% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of HILL-STEAD 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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Dr Anna M Swinbourne
Executive director & trust
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $143k → $423k.
13 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $204k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hill-Stead Museum Board of Governors Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HILL-STEAD MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of HILL-STEAD MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
HILL-STEAD MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
46% 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 HILL-STEAD MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 26% · 2019 27% · 2020 70% · 2021 40% · 2022 40% · 2023 12% — 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
60% of HILL-STEAD MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
62% of HILL-STEAD MUSEUM's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HILL-STEAD MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HILL-STEAD MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$1.9M
- State Aid Grants$722k
- Conf/Seminars/Workshop-Hosting$2k
- Educ & Training For Employees$540
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 HILL-STEAD 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hill-Stead Museum Board of Governors Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HILL-STEAD 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 HILL-STEAD MUSEUM?
- HILL-STEAD MUSEUM (Connecticut) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,899,187 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($868,135). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILL-STEAD MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $3,899,187 in grants to HILL-STEAD MUSEUM, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILL-STEAD MUSEUM?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $868,135 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILL-STEAD MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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