Nevada · Nonprofit
Nevada Museum of Art
Nevada Museum of Art (Nevada) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,597,559 to it, the largest being TARBLE FOUNDATION FKA LOUISE A TARBLE FOUNDATION ($5,017,191). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 118
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $90M
What Nevada Museum of Art does
Mission
The Nevada Museum of Art provides a forum for the presentation of creative ideas. It aspires to serve as a cultural resource for every member of the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Nevada Museum of Art, Inc. (the "Museum") is a not-for-profit organization housed in a contemporary building in Reno, Nevada designed by renowned architect Will Bruder. Founded in 1931, the Museum is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Nevada and is the only museum in the state accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The Museum presents a wide variety of visual arts exhibitions, educational programs and studio classes, films, and special events. The permanent collection of the Museum is divided into four focus areas and consists of more than 2,000 works of art organized around general themes of land and environment. Many of the Museum's exhibitions and programs are developed as content for the Center for Art + Environment, which aims to support the practice, study, and awareness of creative interactions between people and their environment.
$6,745,299 spent$1,826,162 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,745,299.
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 $50M to $66M (+31%).
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: 2018 13% · 2019 29% · 2020 7% · 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Nevada Museum of Art’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 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.
Board chair
Doug Brewer
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 56 funders, grant income fell $5.9M → $5.2M.
20 of 118 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Nevada Museum of Art’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 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
Nevada Museum of Art has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
32% 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 Nevada Museum of Art.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 28% · 2019 18% · 2020 26% · 2021 16% · 2022 30% · 2023 21% — 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
54% of Nevada Museum of Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
57% of Nevada Museum of Art's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Nevada Museum of Art 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 Nevada Museum of Art receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $800k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$500k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$250k
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 Nevada Museum 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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Seven Magic Mountains LLC · disregarded
- Latimer Properties LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Nevada Museum 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 Nevada Museum of Art?
- Nevada Museum of Art (Nevada) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,597,559 to it, the largest being TARBLE FOUNDATION FKA LOUISE A TARBLE FOUNDATION ($5,017,191). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Nevada Museum of Art have?
- IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $37,597,559 in grants to Nevada Museum of Art, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Nevada Museum of Art?
- TARBLE FOUNDATION FKA LOUISE A TARBLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,017,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Nevada Museum of Art find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 118 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