California · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN
MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,670 to it, the largest being THE BAKER STREET FOUNDATION ($240,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $223k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $530k
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Museum of Performance and Design does
Mission
Audiences, the museum supports and cultivates engagement, participation and innovation in the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maintain a collection and research library on the various artistic practices and trades involved with the ryrical, dramatic, choreographic an musical arts; provide research facilities and services; preserve art and historical materials for exhibition an public programs
Maintain a collection and research library on the various artistic practices and trades involved with the ryrical, dramatic, choreographic an musical arts; provide research facilities and services; preserve art and historical materials for exhibition an public programs
$179,363 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $179,363.
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 $5.6M to $5.8M (+2%).
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 13% · 2018 17% · 2019 30% · 2020 18% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 31% · 2024 19% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $128k → $40k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN’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 PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 52% · 2019 82% · 2020 35% · 2021 45% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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
20% of MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
81% of MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k 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 PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN's revenue fell 46% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
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 PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN
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
75% 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 PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN: 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 PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN?
- MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,670 to it, the largest being THE BAKER STREET FOUNDATION ($240,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $529,670 in grants to MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN?
- THE BAKER STREET FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN 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 14 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