Texas · Nonprofit
McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM
McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,564 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($58,163). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM does
Mission
The International Museum of Art & Science located in the Rio Grande Valley inspires audiences of all ages to explore art and science through its permanent collections, exhibits, programs and partnerships by empowering learners to discover their interests and pursue their passions
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Museum programs and exhibitions - programs include maintenance, display, and storage of the museums permanent collection, traveling exhibitions, lectures, and community outreach - taking exhibits or the arts and sciences to children whose communities and schools do not usually have access to the museum, and museum classes - provide training in artistic techniques not available locally.
$979,035 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $979,035.
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 $936k to $2.0M (+114%).
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 48% · 2018 54% · 2019 50% · 2020 85% · 2021 61% · 2022 58% · 2023 69% · 2024 76% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of McALLEN INTERNATIONAL 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. 7 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
Ann Fortescue
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $9k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 McALLEN INTERNATIONAL 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
McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 64% · 2021 52% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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
20% of McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
55% of McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $52k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k 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.
Against its field
McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $114k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$54k
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 McALLEN INTERNATIONAL 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM?
- McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,564 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($58,163). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $115,564 in grants to McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $58,163 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 8 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