Ohio · Nonprofit
MASSILLON MUSEUM
MASSILLON MUSEUM (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,279,969 to it, the largest being THE GESSNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($557,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Massillon Museum does
Mission
A cultural hub where art and history come together.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The museum began discussion of renovating its educational classrooms, mostly cosmetic in nature, in 2023; the work has been conducted in 2024. The museum also started the update of its fire safety systems, and replacement of two new rooftop units, in 2023.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
In an effort to continue upholding best practices and exceeding community expectations of what the museum can achieve, we spent most of 2023 completing our self study for reaccreditation with the american alliance of museums, and were awarded reaccreditation for the next 10 years by the aam in july 2024. Part of maintaining our reaccreditation and our promise to the community that we properly safeguard the collections in our care is that we maintain the building, and that its environment be conducive to long-term preservation of the collections. Therefore, completing the fire system upgrade, and replacing two rooftop hvac units (that were 35 years old) was paramount. State funding helped offset expenses for both those projects, down payments for which were made in 2023.
$1,103,091 spent$52,818 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,103,091.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $5.2M to $7.9M (+51%).
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 71% · 2018 82% · 2019 73% · 2020 66% · 2021 45% · 2022 67% · 2023 70% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Alexandra Nicholis Coon
Executive director
Board chair
Robert Garner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $184k → $327k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MASSILLON MUSEUM’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
MASSILLON 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
50% 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 MASSILLON MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 30% · 2020 67% · 2021 34% · 2022 54% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of MASSILLON MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
93% of MASSILLON MUSEUM's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding MASSILLON MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$86k
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 MASSILLON 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 MASSILLON 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 MASSILLON MUSEUM?
- MASSILLON MUSEUM (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,279,969 to it, the largest being THE GESSNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($557,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSILLON MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,279,969 in grants to MASSILLON MUSEUM, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSILLON MUSEUM?
- THE GESSNER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $557,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSILLON MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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