Kentucky · Nonprofit
JB SPEED ART MUSEUM
JB SPEED ART MUSEUM (Kentucky) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,171,296 to it, the largest being OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,085,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 97
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $143M
What Jb Speed Art Museum does
Mission
At the speed art museum, we invite everyone to celebrate art forever. Whether you're an art aficionado or don't know a dali from a degas, you can find fresh inspiration and meaning at the speed art musuem. With modern architecture, expanded programming, interactive exhibits, and inviting outdoor spaces, the speed offers countless opportunities for everyone to create their own connections and experience art at their own speed. At the speed we're working to make the museum a safe and welcoming place for everyone in our community. Learn more about the speed's commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Curatorial initiatives include rotating exhibitions, care for the permanent collection, and scholarly publications. The curatorial staff stewards a collection of 13,000 objects spanning 6,000 years of human history from ancient to contemporary artworks. Curators produce ambitious exhibitions, bringing artwork from around the world to the louisville community and program events to enhance exhibition content.
$6,352,529 spent$591,651 earned by the program53% of program spendingEducation and outreach programs foster dynamic, multi-sensorial experiences for visitors of all ages and backgrounds. Education programs for youth and families provide opportunities for children to grow up with outreach programs engage underserved populations and often partner with both arts and non-arts organizations to reach all levels of the community.
$4,100,404 spent$50,090 earned by the program34% of program spendingGuardianship and maintenance of the museum and its art collection. The speed art museum utilizes security personnel and technology to secure the collection as well as the museum staff and visitors. State-of-the-art temperature and humidity control systems protect the collection from environmental damage.
$1,595,095 spent$75,913 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,048,028.
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 $144M to $128M (−11%).
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 5% · 2021 6% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of JB SPEED ART MUSEUM’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. 5 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
Raphaela Platow
Executive director (to 08/25)
Board chair
John Crockett
Trustee, chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $3.3M.
16 of 97 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $8.6M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc); $12k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Msw Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money JB SPEED ART MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of JB SPEED ART MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 97 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
JB SPEED ART MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 74% · 2019 69% · 2020 17% · 2021 45% · 2022 12% · 2023 30% — 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
51% of JB SPEED ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
69% of JB SPEED ART MUSEUM's grant income comes from Kentucky 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 14 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
JB SPEED ART MUSEUM 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
Government funding JB SPEED ART MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $430k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$250k
- National Endowment for the Arts$140k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$40k
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 JB SPEED ART 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 JB SPEED ART 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 JB SPEED ART MUSEUM?
- JB SPEED ART MUSEUM (Kentucky) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,171,296 to it, the largest being OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,085,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JB SPEED ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 97 organizations giving $21,171,296 in grants to JB SPEED ART MUSEUM, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JB SPEED ART MUSEUM?
- OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,085,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JB SPEED ART MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 97 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