California · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,637,452 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($35,676,894). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $55M
- Net assets
- $125M
What Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego does
Mission
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mcasd's expanded, state-of-the-art la jolla facility features 40,000 square feet of gallery space for exhibitions of the historical holdings and special, temporary exhibitions, which are developed with original research to provide insightful analysis of issues that impact our region and our world. Exhibitions provide the basis for publications, panel discussions, lectures, community events, tours and other supporting programs.
$5,338,330 spent$514,033 earned by the program63% of program spendingThe stewardship of mcasd's collection is a key component of its mission. In fiscal 2025, mcasd increased its holdings with 103 works of art through donation, purchase, and purchase with donated funds. The funds allocated for care of the permanent collection include expenses for insurance, preservation, and conservation. Mcasd shared its collection through the loan of 11 artworks to 11 exhibitions at other museums nationally.
$2,389,379 spent$32,325 earned by the program28% of program spendingMcasd's intergenerational arts education programs serves audiences with enriching material developed from both the museum's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. Mcasd's signature extended school partnership (esp) connects museum educators with cohorts of students for gallery tours, learning workshops and ultimately creative showcases that connect directly back to school curriculum. Youth audiences are also served through the teen arts collective and monthly family play days. Mcasd received funding to support a creative aging initiative called reflections which allowed older adults an opportunity for learning and community building at the museum. In addition, mcasd educators lead specialized tours, thematic workshops, and facilitate lecture style discussions for the community at large.
$744,551 spent$39,106 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,472,260.
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 2020 to 2021, from $123M to $163M (+32%).
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 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
282% of MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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
Kathryn Kanjo
David c. Copley director and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $4.5M → $7.4M.
13 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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 SAN DIEGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 SAN DIEGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 76% · 2019 78% · 2020 56% · 2021 57% · 2022 78% · 2023 50% — 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
36% of MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO'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
77% of MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO'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 $12M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 SAN DIEGO's revenue fell 86% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $994k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$799k
- National Endowment for the Arts$195k
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 SAN DIEGO
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: 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 SAN DIEGO?
- MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,637,452 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($35,676,894). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $54,637,452 in grants to MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $35,676,894 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 72 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