Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,518,717 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,750,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $-1950964
What Mississippi Museum of Art Inc does
Mission
Development of cultural and artistic enlightenment
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education & information - operates museum school in summer. Offers symposium and activities throughout the year. Offers statewide educational outreach program for schools. Trains volunteers who will work in all areas of the museum.
$631,720 spent$26,845 earned by the program17% of program spendingCollection, exhibitions and accessions of art - responsible for acquisitons to and maintenance of 3000+ art objects annually visited by 75,000+ visitors.
$3,156,609 spent$294,238 earned by the program83% of program spendingN/a
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,788,329.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.4M to $2.1M (−38%).
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 42% · 2018 12% · 2019 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 4% · 2023 8% · 2024 23% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC’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. 6 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.
Board chair
Denise Owens
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $177k → $1.8M.
7 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $165k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest South Arts Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 72% · 2019 36% · 2020 44% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 2023 33% — 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
64% of MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC'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
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$773k
- National Endowment for the Arts$260k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$250k
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 MISSISSIPPI 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ms Museum of Art Foundation · exempt
- Downtown Jackson Plaza · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC?
- MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,518,717 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,750,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $11,518,717 in grants to MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 47 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