Georgia · Nonprofit
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART (Georgia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,148 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ($217,937). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Morris Museum of Art does
Mission
The Morris Museum of Art exists for the purpose of collecting and exhibiting the art of the american south and interpreting it in regional, national, and global contexts. It is dedicated to encouraging artistic inquiry, providing a rich visitor experience, and exercising civic responsibility. Its aim is the enrichment of the public and the betterment of augusta.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educationschool programs: the museum offers various programs for educators, students, and parents, including school tours and activities, teacher programs and resources, student exhibition opportunities, workshops, and family programs.adult programs: the museum hosts numerous educational events throughout the year.special needs programs: connections is a specially designed experience for individuals with alzheimer's disease or related dementia, and their caregivers. Presented on a by-request basis, this free program includes a gallery talk with a trained docent and an art project. Connections provides participants a relaxing, nonthreatening museum experience that accommodates individual needs and learning styles. Docents: volunteer docents lead tours, assist with special events, greet museum guests, and participate in continuing education classes. Docent volunteers enjoy meeting students and members of the public and engaging museum visitors in learning experiences through the visual arts. Docent training is an intensive program designed to provide docent candidates with the necessary knowledge, skills, and experience to lead interpretive tours. The training is organized into…
$569,527 spent$29,117 earned by the program49% of program spendingLibrarythe museum houses the center for the study of southern art, a reference and research library that includes archives pertaining to artists working in the south.
$215,620 spent19% of program spendingExhibitionsthe Morris Museum of Art is the first museum dedicated to the art and artists of the american south. The collection includes holdings of nearly 5,000 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures dating from the late-eighteenth century to the present. In addition to the permanent collection galleries, the museum hosts 20 temporary special exhibitions every year.
$378,314 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,163,461.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $36M to $39M (+9%).
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: 2021 25% · 2023 18% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Mr William S Morris Iii Billy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $132k → $145k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
45% 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 MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 34% · 2019 16% · 2020 19% · 2021 35% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“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
48% of MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
62% of MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k 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.
Government funding MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART
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 Georgia
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
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Morris Museum of Art LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART: 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 MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART?
- MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART (Georgia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,148 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ($217,937). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,313,148 in grants to MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $217,937 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 38 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