Michigan · Nonprofit
MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION
MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,267,720 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ($7,459,543). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Muskegon Museum of Art Foundation does
Mission
The Muskegon Museum of Art Foundation is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to promote understanding, education, and enjoyment of fine art to the citizens of muskegon county and all of west michigan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Below is a summary of the program services administered by mmaf. Collections: the muskegon museum of art through its governing boards, staff, and volunteers, is committed to collecting, preserving, and interpreting its art collections for the benefit of current and future generations. This program service includes curatorial research and oversight, collections management, and acquisition and deacquisition activities, new acquisitions are acquired that enhance both the current make-up of the collection and that advance our mission as established in the vision and mission statements of the institution. Exhibitions: the museum is dedicated to the continual and roating display of the permanent collection and the installation of temporary exhibitions, fearturing both the permanent collections and works from other sources. Exhibitions are developed to celebrate and expand the understanding of the museum's permanent collection by reinforcing its value, building supporting scholarship, and demonstrating its links between the past and present. Education: the educational programs developed by the muskegon museum of art are a critical tool for addressing our mission goals of providing…
$1,458,612 spent$313,350 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,458,612.
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 $6.4M to $11M (+79%).
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: 2022 22% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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.
Board chair
Frank Bednarek
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $91k → $2.3M.
10 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION’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
MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 82% · 2020 48% · 2021 36% · 2022 66% · 2023 69% — 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
69% of MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
88% of MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: 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 MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION?
- MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,267,720 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ($7,459,543). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $12,267,720 in grants to MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $7,459,543 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 24 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