New York · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (New York) receives grants from 1711 organizations whose IRS filings report $567,552,706 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION MIREILLE & JAMES LEVY (USA) ($64,350,000). 1167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $907M
- Funders on record
- 1,711
- Grants received
- $568M
- Net assets
- $5.8B
What Metropolitan Museum of Art does
Mission
The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Curatorial departments, including operation of the cloisters, conservation, cataloguing, and scholarly publications (includes fellowship awards and travel stipends in the amount of $2,322,708)
$163,398,296 spentof which $2,322,708 as grants$1,109,287 earned by the program57% of program spendingAcquisitions and sales of art
$47,029,549 spent$1,705,572 earned by the program16% of program spendingEducation programs, museum libraries, concerts & lectures, and digital media
$31,714,492 spent$1,038,504 earned by the program11% of program spendingOperating services
$19,882,081 spent$2,776,941 earned by the program7% of program spendingSpecial exhibitions
$20,174,791 spent$1,700,000 earned by the program7% of program spendingAll other support services
$5,789,102 spent$5,404,212 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $287,988,311.
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 $4.5B to $5.6B (+23%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 534 funders to 779 funders, grant income rose $19M → $88M.
41 of 1711 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $24M from 32 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund); $23M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Jayne Larkin Wrightsman Irr Trust Xxxxx7008). These are real filings, and they are not money METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART raised.
From the IRS filings of METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1711 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
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 15 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 15 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 24% · 2019 15% · 2020 7% · 2021 56% · 2022 21% · 2023 8% — 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
45% of METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
68% of METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 43 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record — $3.0M federal, $9k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$1.5M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.1M
- National Endowment for the Arts$335k
- Department of State$95k
- NJ$7k
- CT$2k
- FL$10
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 METROPOLITAN 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 New York
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 32 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Jayne Wrightsman Trust · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (11) · corp_trust
- Term Trusts (1) · corp_trust
- Perpetual Trust (6) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART?
- METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (New York) receives grants from 1711 organizations whose IRS filings report $567,552,706 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION MIREILLE & JAMES LEVY (USA) ($64,350,000). 1167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 1711 organizations giving $567,552,706 in grants to METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 1167 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART?
- FOUNDATION MIREILLE & JAMES LEVY (USA) is the largest funder on record, with $64,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 1711 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