Ohio · Nonprofit
INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,065,690 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Intermuseum Conservation Association does
Mission
Intermuseum Conservation Association (ica-art conservation) protects, preserves, and enriches our shared heritage of art and material culture through conservation, preservation, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ica-art conservation is the oldest nonprofit art conservation center in the united states, providing essential preservation services to museums, libraries, archives, universities, churches, and community organizations. Ica provides expert conservation treatment in its laboratory and on-site, along with collections assessments, surveys, custom storage and display solutions, and technical photography. The organization also assists clients with disaster response and recovery and collaborates on grant-funded preservation initiatives. Through its work, ica helps institutions protect and extend the life of cultural heritage collections for public benefit. In 2025, ica undertook a comprehensive review of its policies, procedures, and financial practices, resulting in strengthened fiscal controls, improved revenue recognition, and a more disciplined operational framework. These changes have positioned the organization for long-term sustainability and enhanced service delivery. Collections care and treatment icas conservators treat a wide range of cultural heritage materials, including paintings, murals, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, historic monuments, works on paper, rare books,…
$859,048 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $859,048.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.1M to $2.5M (−18%).
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 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 8% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 32% · 2023 20% · 2024 19% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION’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. 7 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $501k → $93k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 95% · 2020 70% · 2021 49% · 2022 47% · 2023 74% — 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
71% of INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half 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 INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $226k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$211k
- Department of State$8k
- Smithsonian Institution$7k
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 INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
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 Ohio
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
99%
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 INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: 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 INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION?
- INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,065,690 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,065,690 in grants to INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 10 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