New York · Nonprofit
MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET
MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET (New York) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,268,497 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,600,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Museum at Eldridge Street does
Mission
The Museum's mission is to restore and maintain the Natl. Historic Landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue and to develop and implement programming that explores Jewish culture, Lower East Side immigrant history and architectural preservation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Museum's program services are to develop and implement programming that explores Jewish culture, Lower East Side immigrant history and architectural preservation.
$1,079,829 spent$287,876 earned by the program68% of program spendingThe Museum continues to restore and maintain the National Historic Landmark 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue
$506,650 spent32% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,586,479.
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 $4.0M to $6.3M (+57%).
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 6% · 2018 4% · 2019 11% · 2020 12% · 2021 25% · 2022 31% · 2023 13% · 2024 10% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Bonnie Dimun
Exec Director
Board chair
Michael Weinstein
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $253k → $376k.
11 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 23% · 2019 19% · 2020 13% · 2021 36% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% — 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
44% of MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $155k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$155k
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 MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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 MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: 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 MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET?
- MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET (New York) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,268,497 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,600,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $5,268,497 in grants to MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 102 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