Texas · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $971,808 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($565,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $694k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $972k
- Net assets
- $532k
What Museum of Human Achievement does
Mission
The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) provides affordable space and public programs for artists and audiences, supporting the creation and presentation of new work alongside sustainability for artful lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
AFFORDABLE SPACE | MoHA operates a community arts campus in East Austin providing free and subsidized studio, coworking, exhibition, and event space to artists and arts organizations who have historically lacked access to institutional resources. In 2024, the campus housed 21 artists and 22 arts and social change organizations and supported work across disciplines including digital art, film, dance, sculpture, writing, and civic engagement. Programs are offered free of charge or at low cost to maintain broad access and affordability.
$132,948 spent$131,095 earned by the program22% of program spendingPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | MoHA's professional development programs support artists through skills-building, peer learning, and direct access to subject-matter experts, with topics driven by community-identified need. In 2024, MoHA's grant-focused workshops and co-learning programs supported artists applying for local, regional and national opportunities and grants, resulting in $2.2 million in funding awarded to participants, with approximately 80% being first-time grant applicants. MoHA also provides no-fee fiscal sponsorship to support projects that lack access to traditional institutional infrastructure.
$272,892 spent$19,013 earned by the program45% of program spendingEXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, RESIDENCIES | MoHA presented experimental exhibitions, live performances, and artist residencies on its East Austin campus, prioritizing paid opportunities and public access. In 2024, MoHA presented 157 public events attended by 25,773 people and directly compensated artists and organizers over $297,000 for their participation. Residencies and presentations supported artists working across mediums including visual art, net art, film, performance, theater, dance, music, and writing.
$205,832 spent$63,991 earned by the program34% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $611,672.
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 $793k to $2.4M (+204%).
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: 2019 13% · 2020 56% · 2021 51% · 2022 55% · 2023 59% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Zac Traeger
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $17k → $180k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 54% · 2023 42% — 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
25% of MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 46% 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
87% of MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $165k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$165k
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 HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT: 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 HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT?
- MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $971,808 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($565,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $971,808 in grants to MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $565,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 13 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