Louisiana · Nonprofit
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART (Louisiana) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,477,620 to it, the largest being SYDNEY AND WALDA BESTHOFF FOUNDATION ($15,533,457). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10.0M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $101M
What New Orleans Museum of Art does
Mission
The mission of the New Orleans Museum of Art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Collection department services & acquisitions:the heart of noma is its fine art collection. The museum employs a professional curatorial staff whose function is to care for its collections; carry out research on the objects in the collection; organize special exhibitions on particular subjects or themes to present numerous and diverse opportunities for visitors to engage with works of art; write scholarly interpretative articles, catalogues and books on art subjects; recommend and oversee needed restoration and conservation treatment on objects in the collection; cultivate and advise private art collectors and encourage donations; seek out and recommend objects for acquisition or deaccession by the museum.the museum has developed an accession policy for acquiring works of art either through purchase or by gift with a goal of continuing to augment its holdings in the areas of its strengths rather than inaugurating new areas.the museum has focused its collecting activities in several specialized areas; by focusing on continuing to upgrade in these selected areas, the museum has been able to assemble an important collection of both quality and depth.while art purchases are…
$4,121,738 spent$1,369,160 earned by the program59% of program spendingExhibition services:the museum's exhibition program is two-fold: installation of the permanent collection and presentation of special temporary exhibitions. Selections from the permanent collection are installed by the curatorial staff in the galleries in an arrangement which will present opportunities for visitors to engage with the works of art. A meaningful progression of periods and cultures will aid the museum visitor in his/her appreciation and understanding of the artworks. When available, works on loan from other sources can effectively augment the installations and fill in gaps in the collection.to complement the permanent collection installations, the curatorial staff designs a program of special temporary exhibitions of various sizes presented throughout the year. These exhibitions originated by the staff or brought in from other national or international sources offer a wide variety of subjects, themes, stylistic modes, cultures, and artists.
$1,687,618 spent$201,330 earned by the program24% of program spendingEducation and learning division:the museum's education and learning department focuses on in-house and outreach activities. Professional museum staff train volunteer docents to give guided tours of the museum and devise and implement educational programs such as lectures, symposiums, films, concerts, family festivals with specific themes, children's art classes and docent lead school tours to compliment the special exhibitions and permanent collection. Outreach programs are focused teacher workshops and school curriculum based programs imbedded in designated public schools with the greatest needs.the education department provided services for approximately 10,000 people in the community in 2023.
$1,080,259 spent$70,406 earned by the program15% of program spendingMembership program: the New Orleans Museum of Art offers numerous packages that offer various levels of unique cultural programs and support of noma. These membership privileges include special previews of all exhibitions, a quarterly publication with advance notice of educational programs and special events, as well as articles on exhibitions, collections, artists, works of art, and other related subjects as well as other privileges appropriate for the level of giving.
$136,628 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,026,243.
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 $108M to $97M (−10%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 2% · 2020 18% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 7% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $516k → $5.0M.
9 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater New Orleans Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART raised.
From the IRS filings of NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 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
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 89% · 2019 77% · 2020 43% · 2021 44% · 2022 26% · 2023 51% — 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
56% of NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
89% of NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $789k 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
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART's funding base is broadening — from 29 funders to 56 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$1.7M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$454k
- National Endowment for the Arts$295k
- Smithsonian Institution$263k
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 NEW ORLEANS 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 Louisiana
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
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART?
- NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART (Louisiana) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,477,620 to it, the largest being SYDNEY AND WALDA BESTHOFF FOUNDATION ($15,533,457). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $32,477,620 in grants to NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART?
- SYDNEY AND WALDA BESTHOFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,533,457 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 111 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