California · Nonprofit
OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA
OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,043,236 to it, the largest being WAYNE AND GLADYS VALLEY FOUNDATION ($7,500,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 91
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $80M
What Oakland Museum of California does
Mission
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. Through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to think (cont. On sch. O) creatively and critically about the natural, artistic, and social forces that characterize our state and influence its relationship to the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Core galleries and special exhibitions:in total, the museum served 180,844 visitors this year, and a membership of nearly 8,000 households. Approximately 90% of the museum's visitors are residents of the san francisco bay area, with 53% identifying as people of color. 50% of visitors experienced omca at a free or discounted rate.the museum has galleries of california history, california art, and california natural sciences to display the core collection, as well as two spaces for temporary exhibitions. The museum is continually rotating objects in its three core collections (cont. On sch. O) galleries and typically hosts two to three temporary exhibitions per year. Interdisciplinary interpretation is provided by object and thematic labels, audiovisual presentations, interactive computer and video terminals, self-guiding brochures, and facilitated experiences.in fy25, omca developed and exhibited calli: the art of xicanx peoples, which opened on june 14, 2024 and closed january 26, 2025. This major exhibition combines photography, sculpture, painting, installation, poetry, and more to collectively construct a calli, or "xicanx home" that holds the sacred stories of xicanx peoples…
$13,184,814 spent$980,381 earned by the program84% of program spendingCollections and grounds management:the Oakland Museum of California (omca) has lease and grant agreements in place with the city of oakland to conserve, steward, research, and provide scholarly and interpretive expertise in support of the city of oakland's museum collections, which make up the totality of the museum's collection, and to manage and maintain the city's historic brutalist building and gardens over seven acres at 1000 oak street and its collections warehouse in oakland, california (collectively, the museum). Omca maintains the building and seven acres of grounds and gardens on behalf of the city of oakland. The museum's terraced roof gardens and central courtyard, designed by noted (cont. On sch. O) landscape architect dan kiley, serve as a village green for oakland residents and visitors from the bay area and beyond.the museum's collections are the most complete resource on california's natural, artistic, and social history anywhere in the state and are held in public trust by the city of oakland for the public good as one of the city's most valuable assets.the museum's collections of nearly 2 million objects are devoted to the art, history, and natural environment…
$1,106,874 spent$619,385 earned by the program7% of program spendingEducational and community programs:in fy25, omca served just over 23,000 students, teachers, and chaperones onsite, with at least 35% of students coming from oakland unified school district schools and 49% coming from title I schools that serve low-income families. Additionally, omca served over 60,000 visitors through its public programs and community festivals.school programs: this year, our education team created a new natural science guide to support self-guided groups. This printed guide, available in galleries, encourages students to act as "science sleuths and discover examples of predator and prey animals (cont. On sch. O) throughout the gallery. Omca also increased the number of bus scholarship provided to ousd classrooms.public programming: omca's public programming helps to increase the museum's social impact, providing visitors with a sense of social cohesion. Omca's onsite programs and events celebrate cultural traditions, lift up personal stories, and provide interdisciplinary learning. This year the museum hosted "thursday after hours at omca" from january to march, which offers an adult night out at the museum with gallery access, performances, and live drawing…
$1,403,994 spent$165,924 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,695,682.
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 2018 to 2019, from $51M to $65M (+27%).
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 22% · 2018 22% · 2019 13% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 16% · 2023 17% · 2024 20% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Lori Grant Fogarty
Executive director & CEO
Board chair
Rahsaan Thompson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $2.2M.
26 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 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
OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 43% · 2019 29% · 2020 31% · 2021 64% · 2022 17% · 2023 23% — 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 OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA'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
67% of OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $33M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $505k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$421k
- National Endowment for the Arts$59k
- Department of the Interior$25k
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 OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA
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.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Omca Town Square Inc · exempt
- Omca Enterprise LLC · partnership
- Charitable Remainder Trust · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Fund · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA?
- OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,043,236 to it, the largest being WAYNE AND GLADYS VALLEY FOUNDATION ($7,500,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $33,043,236 in grants to OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA?
- WAYNE AND GLADYS VALLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 91 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