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Mingei International Inc

Mingei International Inc (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,352,819 to it, the largest being ANNE RAY FOUNDATION ($10,565,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$55M
15/29 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Mingei International Inc does

Mission

Mingei International Museum connects audiences with the creativity and cultural traditions of makers across time and the globe, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of our shared humanity through handmade objects, and the power and relevance of craft, folk art and design.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The museum carries out a broad program of relevant exhibitions of folk art, craft and design and related educational and community programs. This includes up to six changing exhbitions per year, artist-led workshops, classroom instruction at the museum and at area school sites, and a range of engaging experiences for visitors of all ages.

    $6,148,416 spent$947,753 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,148,416.

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 ($4.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($35M)2018 Revenue 218 ($10M) Expenses 119 ($4.4M) Net assets 119 ($41M)2019 Revenue 290 ($14M) Expenses 121 ($4.5M) Net assets 103 ($36M)2020 Revenue 369 ($18M) Expenses 97 ($3.6M) Net assets 143 ($50M)2021 Revenue 116 ($5.5M) Expenses 118 ($4.4M) Net assets 159 ($56M)2022 Revenue 152 ($7.2M) Expenses 223 ($8.2M) Net assets 150 ($52M)2023 Revenue 141 ($6.7M) Expenses 226 ($8.3M) Net assets 148 ($51M)2024 Revenue 180 ($8.6M) Expenses 235 ($8.7M) Net assets 152 ($53M)2025 Revenue 221 ($11M) Expenses 246 ($9.1M) Net assets 158 ($55M)
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Revenue (221)Expenses (246)Net assets (158)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 2020 to 2021, from $53M to $74M (+40%).

$35M
$42M
$37M
$53M
$74M
$67M
$63M
$60M
$58M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of Mingei International Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 812 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
$6.0M
’18
$9.3M
’19
$14M
’20
$1.2M
’21
−$1.0M
’22
−$1.6M
’23
−$139k
’24
$1.4M
’25
7.7
months of
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

Jessica Hanson York

Exec Dir & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252728312931282930
Joined·+3+5+4+3+8+2+3+5
No longer listed·14156524
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $233k → $3.4M.

12 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Mingei International Inc’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

Mingei International Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 Mingei International Inc.

58%
largest funder
77%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 44% · 2019 44% · 2020 41% · 2021 82% · 2022 55% · 2023 39% — 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 Mingei International Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Mingei International Inc draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.

MN
MI
NY
CA
MO
AR

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Mingei International Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve7.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding Mingei International Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $388k on record.

Federal$388k
grants $388kcontracts $0
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20
26
Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$353k
  • National Endowment for the Arts$35k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 22%Fundraising 11%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

46%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mingei International Inc: 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 Mingei International Inc?
Mingei International Inc (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,352,819 to it, the largest being ANNE RAY FOUNDATION ($10,565,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mingei International Inc have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $18,352,819 in grants to Mingei International Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mingei International Inc?
ANNE RAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,565,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mingei International Inc 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 29 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