Kentucky · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $473,463 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($152,648). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $473k
- Net assets
- $79M
What National Corvette Museum Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the national corvette museum foundation is to educate worldwide audiences on the evolution of the corvette america's sports car through collection, preservation, and celebration of its legacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Tours and exhibits: the national corvette museum foundation provided educational tours to 238,000 guests in 2023, including more than 4,500 students who participated in a school or educational visit. Tour highlights include the mcmichael family education gallery, which provides hands-on inspiration for future designers and engineers. The driven by design exhibition includes oral histories on the design and development of corvette alongside design prototypes that educate and explain the design process, from sketch to production corvette.
$10,135,462 spent$8,824,847 earned by the program96% of program spendingSpecial events programs: 1,892 people participated in the special events programs in 2023. This included educational seminars, panel discussions and presentations from engineers, designers and other experts in their fields. This program uses a significant number of volunteers also to assist in running the activities and seminars.
$92,037 spent$207,390 earned by the program1% of program spendingDelivery: the delivery program brings new corvette owners to the museum so that they can learn about the history of the corvette, and learn about the proper operation of their vehicle. They are given a tour of the corvette assembly plant (when available) to educate them on the manufacturing process and also given a hands-on demonstration of the features of the corvette. Those involved in the delivery program include the staff who prepare the car (pdi) and the staff who provide the tours and demonstrations.
$276,077 spent$2,445,910 earned by the program3% of program spendingPlant tours: helps further the mission of the museum to educate world-wide audiences about the corvette and how it is produced.driven by design, the museum's design and engineering exhibition illustrates how automobile design progresses from sketches to clay models, with a scale clay model corvette on display as an example of the early design process. One exhibit highlights the female interior design team of the late 1950s, nicknamed the "damsels of design." since opening in 2016, the sinkhole experience exhibition has documented the 2014 sinkhole collapse inside the museumwhy it happened, how the buried cars were recovered, how the building was repaired, and what karst and cave landforms are.stingray grill/corvette store: the stingray grill offers lunch options for the convenience of museum guests, and catering options for events at the museum, school group visits and community events. The corvette store offers a wide selection of unique gifts and apparel that tell the corvette story, while corvette accessories allow visitors to customize their corvette. Museum marketing and communication efforts include america's sports car magazine, a quarterly publication mailed to 25,000…
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,503,576.
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 $70M to $80M (+15%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sharon Brawner
CEO/president (partial year)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $103k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC’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
NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 45% · 2019 34% · 2020 59% · 2021 40% · 2022 53% · 2023 57% — 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
39% of NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
85% of NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC'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 $73k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Ncm Motorsports Park LLC · disregarded
- Ncm Insurance Agency LLC · disregarded
- Ncm Holdings LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $473,463 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($152,648). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $473,463 in grants to NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $152,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 26 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