Ohio · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,941,345 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($724,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland does
Mission
Moca's mission- art now, in progress - embodies our nature as a living, adaptive platform for artistic experimentation, public exchange, and civic connection. Our vision - artists & art lead us to the unfamiliar, where we open and connect to new possibilities - is both regularly achievable and persistently aspiring. Artists and audiences are jointly central to our work, partners with us in using art now for inquiry, expression, dialogue, interpretation, and application beyond our walls and into the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1968 by marjorie talalay, nina sundell, and agnes gund as the new gallery, moca was established to introduce cleveland audiences to emerging and experimental contemporary art. Over nearly six decades, the organization has evolved into a nationally recognized, non-collecting contemporary art museum, presenting and commissioning new and recent work by more than 4,000 artists and engaging millions of audience members through exhibitions, programs, communications, and outreach. Since opening its university circle building in 2012, moca has served as a key cultural anchor within one of cleveland's most active cultural, educational, and healthcare neighborhoods.in early fy25, moca articulated three impact objectives to align with our updated mission, vision, and values and to express the consistent goals that guide our work across fiscal years. Their definitions describe both what moca does and the outcomes we seek to achieve. Against these objectives, we establish specific metrics to measure success, identify opportunities for improvement, and strengthen areas of impact. Our exhibitions, engagement initiatives, special events, partnerships, strategic communications, and…
$2,127,936 spent$86,858 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,127,936.
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 2019 to 2020, from $38M to $28M (−25%).
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 2% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2021 23% · 2022 22% · 2023 28% · 2024 11% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND’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. 6 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
Megan L Lykins Reich
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $180k → $228k.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.1M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Cleveland). These are real filings, and they are not money MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND raised.
From the IRS filings of MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 35% · 2019 37% · 2020 25% · 2021 43% · 2022 36% · 2023 22% — 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
46% of MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
82% of MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $804k 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.
Against its field
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND: 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 CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND?
- MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,941,345 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($724,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,941,345 in grants to MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $724,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 35 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