New Jersey · Nonprofit
MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER
MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,809 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($104,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $842k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $240k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Monmouth Museum & Cultural Center does
Mission
Dedicated to fostering creativity, curiosity, and lifelong learning, the monmouth museum offers a diverse range of exhibitions, programs, and events for visitors of all ages. The museum features two galleries with rotating exhibits and two children's wings, as well as beautiful garden spaces.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The monmouth museum presents changing art, history and science exhibitions to educate and entertain while providing a destination for creative expression and life-long learning to the diverse community it serves.
$558,622 spent$472,636 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $558,622.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $5.5M (+278%).
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 5% · 2018 6% · 2020 17% · 2021 38% · 2022 35% · 2023 14% · 2024 10% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Erika Schaefer
Executive director
Board chair
Robert Angel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $5k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER’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
MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 76% · 2021 32% · 2022 67% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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 MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
50% of MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER's revenue grew 31% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: 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 MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER?
- MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,809 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($104,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $239,809 in grants to MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $104,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 10 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