Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MONUMENT LAB INC
MONUMENT LAB INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,636,040 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($9,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Monument Lab Inc does
Mission
Monument lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio based in philadelphia. Monument lab cultivates and facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Re: generation is a nationwide participatory public art and history project organized by monument lab.
$297,536 spentof which $150,000 as grants9% of program spendingDeclaration house is a temporary public art and history exhibition presented by monument lab in philadelphia.
$151,333 spent4% of program spending2024 monument lab summit is a bi-annual conference organized by monument lab in philadelphia.
$263,764 spent$20,908 earned by the program8% of program spendingMonument lab artist residency, arch: art remediating campus histories project, declaration house, slow motion, bulletin, regeneration, summit
$2,675,175 spent$1,221,295 earned by the program79% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,387,808.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $336k to $3.5M (+936%).
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.
81% of MONUMENT LAB 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. 1 of the last 4 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
Paul M Farber
Executive director
Board chair
Tiffany Tavarez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $5.2M.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 MONUMENT LAB 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
MONUMENT LAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 39% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
MONUMENT LAB INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $761k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MONUMENT LAB INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MONUMENT LAB INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $530k on record — $130k federal, $400k state.
- Department of the Interior$80k
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
- GRANT IN AID$360k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$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 MONUMENT LAB 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 MONUMENT LAB 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 MONUMENT LAB INC?
- MONUMENT LAB INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,636,040 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($9,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONUMENT LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $13,636,040 in grants to MONUMENT LAB INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONUMENT LAB INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONUMENT LAB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 17 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