California · Nonprofit
NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION
NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being JOYCE A WARD FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $425M
What Norton Simon Art Foundation does
Programs
The foundation maintains an art collection, which it loans to museums for exhibition to the public. Most of the foundation's art is on loan to the norton simon museum.
$3,076,412 spentAcquisition of equipment and miscellaneous capitalized expenditures for the promotion of the foundation's charitable purpose.
$227,625 spentThe foundation conducts a series of art-related lectures and performances. They were presented to the public both virtually and in-person at the norton simon museum.
$157,134 spentThe foundation produces scholarly catalogues on the collections displayed at the norton simon museum.
$127,551 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $385M to $427M (+11%).
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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION?
- NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being JOYCE A WARD FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION?
- JOYCE A WARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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