Tennessee · Nonprofit
KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART (Tennessee) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,236,938 to it, the largest being THE ASLAN FOUNDATION ($1,184,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Knoxville Museum of Art does
Mission
The purpose of the Knoxville Museum of Art is to support and promote public interest, awareness, knowledge and education in the visual arts in east tennessee . To this end, the corporation shall, among other things, develop permanent collection of original works of art and present temporary exhibitions of the highest artistic merit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and public programs
$470,946 spent$456,493 earned by the program20% of program spendingExhibitions of art, including facilities and security.
$849,324 spent35% of program spendingCuratorial costs, including valuations, acquisitions, and care of arts.
$1,093,470 spent45% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,413,740.
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 $12M to $13M (+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: 2017 8% · 2018 4% · 2019 7% · 2020 10% · 2021 14% · 2022 31% · 2023 17% · 2024 19% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 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
Steven Matijcio
Executive director
Board chair
Taylor Wortham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 21 funders, grant income fell $809k → $429k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $2.7M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Knoxville Museum of Art Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART raised.
From the IRS filings of KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF 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
KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 61% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 31% · 2022 26% · 2023 24% — 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 KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
90% of KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF 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. $724k 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
KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART 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 KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $231k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$146k
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
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 KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Knoxville Museum of Art Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF 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 KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART?
- KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART (Tennessee) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,236,938 to it, the largest being THE ASLAN FOUNDATION ($1,184,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $4,236,938 in grants to KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART?
- THE ASLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,184,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF 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 2017–2025), 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