New York · Nonprofit
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art (New York) receives grants from 1011 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,893,185 to it, the largest being THE DAVID GEFFEN FOUNDATION ($80,000,000). 653 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $362M
- Funders on record
- 1,011
- Grants received
- $440M
- Net assets
- $2.3B
What Museum of Modern Art does
Mission
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum Operations - Curatorial and curatorial support departments include conservation, learning and engagement programming, exhibitions, creative, publications, library and archives. The Museum was founded in 1929 as an educational institution and maintains a vast breadth of educational programming, which increased in the years after the openings of the renovations and expansions in 2004, 2006, and 2019. (Continued in Schedule O)
$157,404,716 spentof which $2,230,758 as grants$70,739,547 earned by the program70% of program spendingAcquisitions and deaccessions pertaining to the collection - In FY 2025, approximately 833 works were added to this collection, both by donation and by purchase.
$25,504,160 spent$3,107,012 earned by the program11% of program spendingSecurity, operations, and maintenance of exhibition galleries and art collection.
$42,032,691 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,941,567.
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 $2.3B to $2.7B (+16%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of Museum of Modern Art’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (56% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 298 funders to 423 funders, grant income rose $20M → $70M.
21 of 1011 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $83M from 25 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money Museum of Modern Art raised.
From the IRS filings of Museum of Modern Art’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1011 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 Modern Art has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 33% · 2019 24% · 2020 18% · 2021 14% · 2022 16% · 2023 43% — 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
38% of Museum of Modern Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 Modern Art draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 39 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 Modern Art runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 43 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Museum of Modern Art receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record — $7k federal, $800 state.
- Smithsonian Institution$7k
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$800
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 Modern Art
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Afe LLC · disregarded
- Modern and Contemporary Art Support Corp · exempt
- PS1 Contemporary Art Center Inc · exempt
- The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art · exempt
- MoMA Auxiliaries · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Museum of Modern Art: 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 Modern Art?
- Museum of Modern Art (New York) receives grants from 1011 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,893,185 to it, the largest being THE DAVID GEFFEN FOUNDATION ($80,000,000). 653 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Museum of Modern Art have?
- IRS filings report 1011 organizations giving $439,893,185 in grants to Museum of Modern Art, 653 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Museum of Modern Art?
- THE DAVID GEFFEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Museum of Modern Art 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.
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 1011 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