Arizona · Nonprofit
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,381,018 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($112,875,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 129
- Grants received
- $119M
- Net assets
- $197M
What Musical Instrument Museum does
Mission
The Musical Instrument Museum (mim) enriches our world by collecting, preserving, and making accessible an astonishing variety of musical instruments and performance videos from every country in the world. Mim offers guests a welcoming and fun experience, incomparable interactive technology, dynamic programming, and exceptional musical performances. Mim fosters appreciation of the world's diverse cultures by showing how we innovate, adapt, and learn from each other to create music - the language of the soul.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Galleries and special exhibitions: more than 300 displays with state-of-the-art audio-visual technology immerse guests in music from every country in the world. Temporary special exhibitions dive deeper into musical topics through original storytelling. Hands-on galleries invite guests to make their own music.
$13,111,043 spent$3,975,876 earned by the program76% of program spendingMim music theater: mim offers over 300 concerts yearly in an intimate, acoustically superb environment. Performances are curated to bring the galleries to life, connecting audiences to diverse live programming from local, national, and international artists.
$3,407,066 spent$4,954,249 earned by the program20% of program spendingEducation and public programs: people of all ages learn through music at mim. Education offerings include children's classes, a student field trip program that welcomes up to 70,000 participants annually, teacher professional development workshops, and educational experiences for adults and seniors. Weekend public programs called signature events bring the community together to celebrate world cultures, musical genres, and iconic artists.
$838,315 spentof which $72,893 as grants$62,224 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,356,424.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $128M to $167M (+31%).
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
Craig D Culy
Executive director/treasurer
Board chair
Robert G Weston Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $8.9M → $15M.
23 of 129 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 129 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
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 91% · 2023 93% — 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
44% of MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
96% of MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM'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 $4.4M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$38k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$30k
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 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: 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 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM?
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,381,018 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($112,875,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 129 organizations giving $119,381,018 in grants to MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $112,875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 129 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