Washington · Nonprofit
Museum of Glass
Museum of Glass (Washington) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,602,469 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT M MINKOFF FOUNDATION ($2,643,672). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Museum of Glass does
Mission
A signature glassmaking venue shaping the future of glass. Our Mission is to ignite creativity, fuel discovery and enrich lives through glass and glassmaking.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Curatorial Exhibitions and Research The Curatorial Department stewards and interprets the Museum's permanent collection of glass, including the digital preservation of both the permanent and born-digital collections. The department organizes exhibitions featuring works from the collection as well as from artists, institutions, and private collectors. MOG also develops traveling exhibitions, including Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight (shown at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian), A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists, and Art Deco: Glass from the David Huchthausen Collection. During the fiscal year, the Museum presented four major and several smaller exhibitions in its galleries, advancing its mission to promote glass as an art form and inspire creativity.
$1,501,072 spent$549,520 earned by the program34% of program spendingHot Shop, Education and Outreach - The Hot Shop and Education programs are central to the Museum's activities. A dedicated team of glass artists demonstrates glassmaking daily during the five days the Museum is open to the public (Wednesday through Sunday). During the fiscal year, MOG hosted 31 artist residencies with local, national, and international artists. Visitors learned about the creative process, science, and technology of glass, and more than 1,200 participants created their own works through workshops. The Mobile Hot Shop extended outreach into schools and community centers. MOG's education team served more than 2,500 students, including every 6th grader in Tacoma Public Schools through the Science of Art program. The department also partnered with the University of Puget Sound and the Pierce County Library System to deliver the Big Read program with author Yaa Gyasi, presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists.
$1,875,426 spent$686,566 earned by the program42% of program spendingMuseum Store - The Museum Store is designed to reflect and enhance the experience of the collection. The Store presents glass art from local, national, and international artists, including both emerging and established makers. During the fiscal year, the Store provided artists with greater public exposure and a means of supporting themselves through the sale of their art.
$276,755 spent$551,233 earned by the program6% of program spendingAfter Hours Programs - After Hours Programs provide the Museum experience to individuals through special after-hours events, both public and private. These programs offer a different kind of Museum experience, exposing constituencies that may not normally visit to glass art and glassmaking. During the fiscal year, these events successfully engaged new audiences and expanded access to the Museum's exhibitions and Hot Shop demonstrations.Other program expenses include costs related to marketing, security, and admissions.
$812,623 spent$398,805 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,465,876.
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 2021 to 2022, from $28M to $26M (−6%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% · 2024 9% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of Museum of Glass’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 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
Deborah Lenk
Executive Director
Board chair
Kenneth Farmer Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $200k → $706k.
9 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Glass’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 Glass leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 55%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 32% · 2019 46% · 2020 85% · 2021 39% · 2022 57% · 2023 26% — 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
53% of Museum of Glass's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 of Glass draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k 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 Glass's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Museum of Glass receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $534k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$194k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$174k
- Smithsonian Institution$166k
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 Glass
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 Washington
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
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Museum of Glass: 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 Glass?
- Museum of Glass (Washington) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,602,469 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT M MINKOFF FOUNDATION ($2,643,672). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Museum of Glass have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $6,602,469 in grants to Museum of Glass, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Museum of Glass?
- THE ROBERT M MINKOFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,643,672 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Museum of Glass find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 65 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