Rhode Island · Nonprofit
NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION
NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,134,997 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($349,806). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Newport Art Museum and Art Association does
Mission
The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. The museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture have the power to bring diverse groups of individuals together, which ultimately promotes civic engagement and strengthens the social fabric of our communities. This core belief continues to guide the museum's direction today. Museum offerings range from exhibitions and lectures to art classes in its museum school and art trips to other cultural institutions. Located on 3-acres along beautiful bellevue avenue in newport, ri, the museum's galleries are housed in two historically significant buildings and feature notable special exhibitions as well as selections from its growing permanent collection. The collection currently includes nearly 2,750 works of art including sculpture, paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, textiles, and glass art dating f
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibition highlights include: "georgia o'keeffe: 'things I had no words for'" (july 16 - october 16, 2022), which featured oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors that celebrated o'keeffe's exploration of abstraction, which established her as one of the foundational american modernists. Powerful, bold, colorful, and evocative, o'keeffe's abstractions represent her unique style and approach to nature and landscape. This exhibition marked the second show of georgia o'keeffe's work at the newport art museum. O'keeffe first exhibited her work, with other american modern artists, in 1938 and alongside an exhibition of gertrude vanderbilt whitney's sculpture. On view at the same time, "donna maria bruton: 'from sense to soul'" showcased the work of artist and educator, donna maria bruton who created many evocative works of art from her memories and experiences. Combining and collaging canvas, board, paper, and paint, bruton created colorful and textured dreamscapes where recognizable objects and abstract forms coalesce and intermingle. Focusing on a selection of bruton's work from the 1990s-2000s, which includes objects from the museum's permanent collection and loans, this exhibition…
$396,334 spent$63,684 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe newport art museum offers year-round arts education programming for all ages and experience levels at its museum school. Additionally, the museum school's teaching artists provide educational experiences for a variety of partnering organizations, both on and off site. These include after school arts programs at pell and aquidneck elementary schools, a full time arts education program at lifespan hospital's bradley schools, and programs in the school's ceramics studio with fabnewport and the east bay met school. The museum school rents studio space to a dedicated group of ceramics artists and the ri open drawing group, and hosts community exhibitions in its hallway which highlight work by students and artists with diverse backgrounds.
$658,174 spent$246,528 earned by the program50% of program spendingNewport art museum has enriched the community, state and region with vibrant and diverse arts programming for 110 years. In addition to exhibitions featuring local artists, as well as those who exhibit internationally, the museum offered a wide array of public programming, which included artists' talks, scholarly lectures, discussions, free community events, storytelling, docent-led tours, a museum reads book group, and a variety of offerings with partnering organizations, including lifespan hospitals bradley schools, newport community school, the public's radio, rhode island black storytellers, the women's resource center, and many others.
$249,399 spent$48,211 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,303,907.
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 $13M to $11M (−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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 13% · 2020 29% · 2021 18% · 2022 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION’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. 8 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 16 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $230k → $316k.
7 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
27% 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 NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 20% · 2019 15% · 2020 20% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% — 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
38% of NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $571k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION?
- NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,134,997 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($349,806). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $2,134,997 in grants to NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $349,806 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 62 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