New York · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN (New York) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,558,780 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,751,295). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 180
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $92M
What Museum of Arts and Design does
Mission
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions each year, the Museum of Arts and Design presents groundbreaking exhibitions that support its mission to champion makers across creative fields. In fy24, the museum mounted original exhibitions at its home in columbus circle, including craft front & center (february 4, 2023-april 21, 2024); shary boyle: outside the palace of me (september 23, 2023-february 25, 2024); taylor swift: storyteller (march 20, 2023-september 5, 2024); the burke prize (november 7, 2023-march 5, 2024); sonya clark: we are each other (march 23-september 22, 2024); michael sylvan robinson (march 29-august 4, 2024); anne wilson: errant behaviors (april 20, 2024-may 11, 2025); out of the jewelry box (april 20, 2025-october 11, 2026); craft front and center: conversation pieces (june 1, 2024-april 20, 2025); barbie: a cultural icon (october 19, 2024-march 16, 2025).
$6,073,638 spent$1,318,011 earned by the program66% of program spendingEducation and programming: the Museum of Arts and Design's education programs provide enrichment and exposure to the arts for thousands of k-12 students annually-with an emphasis on reaching underserved youth. These programs take place throughout the galleries and mad's sixth-floor education center, as well as virtually when schools are not able to come to mad, which allows the museum to reach wider audiences and cater to a variety of students. These tours are currently offered in english and spanish. While the mechanisms and/or target populations of these programs differ, they share the same overarching goals: to broaden the experience and knowledge of new york city's school children; make learning opportunities available to those who would otherwise not have access; build critical thinking and problem solving skills; and create an environment of success that not only fosters self-confidence and self-esteem, but also impacts lifelong achievement.docent tours:nine weekly free public tours led by mad's dynamic guides of the museum's exhibitions and permanent collection, in which visitors learn about the materials, processes, and concepts that drive contemporary innovation in the…
$3,107,103 spent$841,261 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,180,741.
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 2018 to 2019, from $84M to $95M (+12%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 9% · 2021 24% · 2022 13% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 8 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
Timothy Rodgers
Executive director
Board chair
Michele Cohen
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $520k → $5.0M.
10 of 180 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 OF ARTS AND DESIGN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 180 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 OF ARTS AND DESIGN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 22% · 2019 36% · 2020 86% · 2021 10% · 2022 41% · 2023 46% — 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
29% of MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
83% of MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN'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 $4.6M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 OF ARTS AND DESIGN receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $28M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $890k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$454k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$205k
- National Endowment for the Arts$165k
- Smithsonian Institution$66k
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 OF ARTS AND DESIGN
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
72% 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 OF ARTS AND DESIGN: 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 OF ARTS AND DESIGN?
- MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN (New York) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,558,780 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,751,295). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN have?
- IRS filings report 180 organizations giving $27,558,780 in grants to MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN, 96 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,751,295 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 180 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