California · Nonprofit
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,854,869 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,555,067). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Laguna Art Museum does
Mission
The museum's primary exempt purpose is to promote the understanding of the role of art and artists in americn culture through collect, exhibition, research, and instruction. The focus of the organization collection is on the art of california and related works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education is at the heart of Laguna Art Museum's mission to enlighten and engage people of all ages. Through school partnerships, free youth admission, family workshops and the dedication of trained museum educators and docents, the museum fosters curiosity, creativity and lifelong learning rooted in california art and ideas.collaborating directly with california artists and artwork collectors, the museum presents exhibitions and programs that reflect the region's unique history, diversity and innovation for the purpose of advancing the understanding of how artists have shaped the cultural life of our region and state from the 19th century to the present.the museum's landmark art + nature initiative places artwork outdoors that unites art, science and environmental awareness, drawing national attention for projects that inspire connection to the landscape and creativity that defines california.
$2,085,415 spent$699,050 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,085,415.
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 $5.0M to $6.1M (+22%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of LAGUNA ART MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Julie Perlin Lee
Executive director
Board chair
Joe Hanauer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.5M.
13 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 LAGUNA ART MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LAGUNA ART MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 56% · 2019 28% · 2020 24% · 2021 35% · 2022 32% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of LAGUNA ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
91% of LAGUNA ART MUSEUM's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM 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
Organizations like LAGUNA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 LAGUNA 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 LAGUNA ART MUSEUM?
- LAGUNA ART MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,854,869 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,555,067). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAGUNA ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $10,854,869 in grants to LAGUNA ART MUSEUM, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAGUNA ART MUSEUM?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,555,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAGUNA ART MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 78 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