Tennessee · Nonprofit
Hunter Museum of American Art
Hunter Museum of American Art (Tennessee) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,310,738 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($190,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $43M
What Hunter Museum of American Art does
Mission
The Hunter Museum of American Art collects, preserves, and presents American art and connects the community through inspiring educational and visitor-focused experiences for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Welcoming more than 60,000 guests annually, the Hunter Museum of American Art has served for 70 years as a cultural center of the community, presenting significant exhibitions and programs, hosting numerous events and gatherings serving as an important draw for tourists and for businesses considering moving to the region and providing a safe space for contemplation and dialogue. Committed to welcoming all people, the Hunter is very intentional about including under-represented artists and audiences in both the artwork it presents and the visitors and communities it engages. The Hunter Museum has been continuously accredited by the American Alliance of Museums since 1982.
$1,911,256 spent$388,404 earned by the program46% of program spendingThe Hunters permanent collection includes nearly 3,000 works of American art, all of which are accessible through the museums website, spanning the early 1700s to today, presented across 20 galleries within the museum. The museums three strategic collecting priorities are works by female artists, both historic and contemporary, works by artists of color, both historic and contemporary, and technology-based works, including photography, video, and new media. Making artwork available outside the walls of the museum, the Hunter has over 20 sculptures installed throughout the city and regularly loans artwork to other institutions around the country, furthering the museums accessibility to a wider audience. The museum presents 4 to 6 special exhibitions each year, many of which are organized internally. Accompanying the artwork on display are multiple interactive spaces, offering guests the opportunity to become creators themselves.
$1,922,404 spent46% of program spendingThe museum is a leader in youth and adult educational experiences, partnering with area organizations and community members to create customized experiences for a range of audiences, such as Black professionals, teenagers, Title 1 school students, Spanish speaking students and adults, area educators, and prison inmates. Public programs engage with community issues and many feature BIPOC creatives and local leaders, all paid for their participation. Recognizing that affordability can be a barrier to access, the museum offers free admission for youth 17 and under, military families, and social service groups, multiple free programs, and free admission on the first Thursday afternoon of every month. A partnership with Museums for All offers EBT cardholders and their guests deeply discounted admission year-round. Fully ADA compliant, the museum has developed hands-on tools to offer additional avenues of access for low vision guests and those on the autism spectrum and continually seeks to meet audiences where they are.
$307,636 spent$79,738 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,141,296.
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 2022 to 2023, from $46M to $43M (−5%).
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: 2020 3% · 2022 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of Hunter Museum of American Art’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Virginia Anne Sharber
Executive Director
Board chair
Todd Womack
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $83k → $162k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $2.2M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Artsbuild). These are real filings, and they are not money Hunter Museum of American Art raised.
From the IRS filings of Hunter Museum of American Art’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Hunter Museum of American Art has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
40% 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 Hunter Museum of American Art.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 36% · 2019 34% · 2020 54% · 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 27% — 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
40% of Hunter Museum of American Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
70% of Hunter Museum of American Art's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $443k 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
Hunter Museum of American Art has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Hunter Museum of American Art receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$75k
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 Hunter Museum of American Art
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hunter Museum of American Art: 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 Hunter Museum of American Art?
- Hunter Museum of American Art (Tennessee) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,310,738 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($190,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hunter Museum of American Art have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,310,738 in grants to Hunter Museum of American Art, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hunter Museum of American Art?
- TENNESSEE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hunter Museum of American Art find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing