Maryland · Nonprofit
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art (Maryland) receives grants from 269 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,232,072 to it, the largest being THE LEE AND JULIET FOLGER FUND ($13,041,000). 181 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $383M
- Funders on record
- 269
- Grants received
- $84M
- Net assets
- $2.0B
What National Gallery of Art does
Mission
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
COLLECTIONS, CURATORIAL AND ACQUISITIONS OF ARTThe National Gallery's collection is at the heart of the National Gallery's mission, following founder Andrew W. Mellon's gift and mandate to establish a national gallery with works of the highest quality. The collection of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts traces the development of European achievements from the thirteenth century to the present and American art from colonial times to the present. It comprises a comprehensive study of Italian Renaissance art, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci outside Europe, as well as strong holdings of the French Impressionists, the Dutch and Flemish masters, one of the country's most distinguished American collections, and twentieth-century art. The collection also includes prints, drawings, rare books and photographs. Major post-World War II sculpture is installed in a dynamic and richly landscaped setting in the National Gallery Sculpture Garden.Over 163,000 paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs comprise the National Gallery's collection.AcquisitionsOver the past year, we have added 947 works of art to the permanent collection by purchase or gift. Select…
$104,075,358 spentof which $52,756 as grants$32,985 earned by the program51% of program spendingEDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMSThe National Gallery advanced its educational mission by providing accessible art-based programs developed in collaboration with artists, musicians, filmmakers, scholars, educators, and community partners. The National Gallery delivered 3,066 educational and public programs, serving 157,666 participants onsite and virtually.A total of 36,212 visitors attended after-hours programs, including National Gallery Nights and Jazz in the Garden. The National Gallery served 12,273 participants through 82 film screenings featuring rare, non-commercial, international, and art films. Ongoing in-person our public tour series engaged 30,316 visitors, while 12,472 attendees participated in onsite and virtual talks and conversations. Multigenerational programs engaged more than 20,480 participants of all ages through family-oriented activities, including artmaking, story time, yoga, pop-up programs, and an online sketchbook club.Educational programs served 20,700 K-12 students nationwide through 403 school programs, including onsite tours, virtual lessons, and in-school workshops. Through the Across the Nation program, the National Gallery partnered with 10 museums…
$63,589,290 spentof which $1,515,774 as grants$-244,897 earned by the program31% of program spendingSPECIAL EXHIBITIONSAn integral aspect of the National Gallery's programming is organizing and presenting special exhibitions of major works of art, both from our permanent collections, and lent from public and private collections around the world, highlighting the breadth of artistic achievement in all forms. Through collaborative relationships with other nations and museums, special exhibitions bring together great works of art and contribute to scholarship in the field.During the fiscal year, 263 lenders from 16 countries and 43 states loaned 946 works of art to eight exhibitions (six special loan exhibitions and two in-house exhibitions). The National Gallery also worked on an additional 14 projects scheduled to open within the next five years and administered the tour of three exhibitions."Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World" - This exhibition explored the role of art in the development of European natural history during the 16th and 17th centuries. Featuring nearly 75 works, it examined how artists documented insects and animals as scientific knowledge expanded, and included specimens from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History."In the Tower: Chakaia…
$27,368,935 spentof which $79,134 as grants$98,229 earned by the program13% of program spendingEDITORIAL AND PHOTOGRAPHYThe National Gallery's editorial and photography departments produce many publications produced by the National Gallery. An example is Systematic catalogs. These comprehensive catalogs contain research on the paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts in the National Gallery's collection.
$8,369,234 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $203,402,817.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8B to $1.5B (−17%).
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 61% · 2018 56% · 2019 71% · 2020 64% · 2021 47% · 2022 110% · 2023 71% · 2024 61% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of National Gallery of Art’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 76 funders to 114 funders, grant income rose $5.2M → $8.9M.
28 of 269 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Gallery of Art’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 269 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
National Gallery of Art has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 29% · 2019 41% · 2020 39% · 2021 33% · 2022 12% · 2023 26% — 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
52% of National Gallery of Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
National Gallery of Art draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 Gallery of Art holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 43 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like National Gallery of 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Modern Art Foundation Inc · exempt
- The Foundation for the Epstein Family Munch Collection · exempt
- FC Strategic Holdings Ltd · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Gallery of 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 National Gallery of Art?
- National Gallery of Art (Maryland) receives grants from 269 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,232,072 to it, the largest being THE LEE AND JULIET FOLGER FUND ($13,041,000). 181 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Gallery of Art have?
- IRS filings report 269 organizations giving $84,232,072 in grants to National Gallery of Art, 181 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Gallery of Art?
- THE LEE AND JULIET FOLGER FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,041,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Gallery of Art find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 269 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