North Carolina · Nonprofit
MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC
MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,787,228 to it, the largest being GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST ($9,974,831). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $100M
What Mint Museum of Art Inc does
Mission
The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the majority of fy25, the mint museum continued its core activities, including expanding its permanent collections through important acquisitions; launching new exhibitions comprising works from the permanent collections and on loan; engaging visitors of all ages and backgrounds through education and outreach initiatives; and implementing new communication strategies, technologies, and methods to reach and engage new audiences. The museum presented an exciting roster of major mint organized and special loan exhibitions in fy25:whitfield lovell: passages was the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work to date. Whitfield lovell is renowned for his masterful conte crayon portraits and multi-sensory installations that focus on aspects of african american history, while raising universal questions about identity, memory, and america's collective heritage. Organized by the american federation of arts, it brought together, for the first time, two of lovell's major installations, deep river and visitation: the richmond project. Photographs of african americans taken between the emancipation proclamation and the civil rights movement inspired his exquisite drawings created…
$12,458,367 spent$1,082,403 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,458,367.
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 2023 to 2024, from $79M to $96M (+21%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 17% · 2022 25% · 2023 6% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 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
Dr Todd A Herman
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $422k → $2.3M.
18 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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: $20M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas). These are real filings, and they are not money MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 49% · 2019 33% · 2020 38% · 2021 32% · 2022 36% · 2023 60% — 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
37% of MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC'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
90% of MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC has grown faster than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $280k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$240k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$40k
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 MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 MINT MUSEUM OF ART 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 MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC?
- MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,787,228 to it, the largest being GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST ($9,974,831). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $18,787,228 in grants to MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC?
- GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $9,974,831 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 83 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