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KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION

KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE ASLAN FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$814k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$12M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Knoxville Museum of Art Foundation does

Mission

To provide financial support for the knoxville museum of art.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Distribution to knoxville museum of art

    $286,221 spentof which $286,221 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $286,221.

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 ($100k) Expenses 100 ($180k) Net assets 100 ($4.9M)2018 Revenue 149 ($150k) Expenses 110 ($197k) Net assets 107 ($5.3M)2019 Revenue 175 ($176k) Expenses 115 ($207k) Net assets 111 ($5.5M)2020 Revenue 191 ($192k) Expenses 129 ($232k) Net assets 112 ($5.5M)2021 Revenue 367 ($369k) Expenses 140 ($252k) Net assets 147 ($7.2M)2022 Revenue 253 ($254k) Expenses 158 ($284k) Net assets 122 ($6.0M)2023 Revenue 256 ($257k) Expenses 157 ($282k) Net assets 134 ($6.6M)2024 Revenue 3294 ($3.3M) Expenses 171 ($308k) Net assets 214 ($11M)2025 Revenue 810 ($814k) Expenses 184 ($331k) Net assets 235 ($12M)
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Revenue (810)Expenses (184)Net assets (235)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 2023 to 2024, from $6.6M to $11M (+60%).

$4.9M
$5.3M
$5.5M
$5.5M
$7.2M
$6.0M
$6.6M
$11M
$12M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$79k
’17
−$48k
’18
−$31k
’19
−$40k
’20
$117k
’21
−$30k
’22
−$25k
’23
$3.0M
’24
$483k
’25

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.

Board chair

Stephen Bailey

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed788888877
Joined·+1+0+1+1+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·00110120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART 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.

Where its funders are

100% of KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

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

KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Knoxville Museum of Art · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: 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 FOUNDATION?
KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE ASLAN FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION?
THE ASLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION 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.

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 1 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