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JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION

JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,480,000 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$8.5M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$76M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Joslyn Art Museum Foundation does

Mission

The purpose of Joslyn Art Museum Foundation is to support the joslyn art museum and manage the museum's endowment funds.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of Joslyn Art Museum Foundation is to support the joslyn art museum and manage the museum's endowment funds.

    $2,926,698 spentof which $2,679,411 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,926,698.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($37M)2018 Revenue 128 ($4.8M) Expenses 64 ($2.2M) Net assets 97 ($36M)2019 Revenue 133 ($5.0M) Expenses 84 ($3.0M) Net assets 116 ($43M)2020 Revenue 62 ($2.3M) Expenses 61 ($2.1M) Net assets 129 ($48M)2021 Revenue 324 ($12M) Expenses 66 ($2.3M) Net assets 168 ($62M)2022 Revenue 125 ($4.7M) Expenses 76 ($2.7M) Net assets 145 ($54M)2023 Revenue 259 ($9.8M) Expenses 77 ($2.7M) Net assets 177 ($66M)2024 Revenue 226 ($8.5M) Expenses 84 ($3.0M) Net assets 204 ($76M)
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Revenue (226)Expenses (84)Net assets (204)Peer revenue range

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 $48M to $62M (+30%).

$37M
$36M
$43M
$48M
$62M
$59M
$68M
$76M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

53% of JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$244k
’17
$2.6M
’18
$2.0M
’19
$185k
’20
$9.9M
’21
$2.0M
’22
$7.1M
’23
$5.6M
’24
22
months of
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

Jack Becker

Museum executive director

Board chair

John P Nelson

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $448k → $3k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
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total
funders
2
1
1
1
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION’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

JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

81%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 3 states in all.

NY
NE
KS

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin65% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION

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In Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Joslyn Art Museum · exempt

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,480,000 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,480,000 in grants to JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 3 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