Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,041,109 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($7,876,074). 110 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 161
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $777M
What Peabody Essex Museum Inc does
Mission
Pem offers thought-provoking experiences of the arts, humanities, and sciences to activate understanding of our shared humanity and to empower imagination and learning through experimentation. We steward, build, and make our collections accessible to encourage appreciation of the interconnected histories and creativity of people in our complex, always changing world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions and publications: see schedule o.
$12,688,018 spent$2,189,271 earned by the program34% of program spendingCuratorial and collections: see schedule o.
$14,289,538 spent$5,051 earned by the program38% of program spendingLearning & community engagement: see schedule o.
$2,925,610 spent$106,681 earned by the program8% of program spendingAll other
$7,649,202 spent$1,637,976 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,552,368.
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 $835M to $781M (−6%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 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.
Chief executive
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Executive director and CEO
Board chair
Jennifer Borggaard
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 47 funders to 77 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $10M.
17 of 161 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 161 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
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
42% 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 PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 34% · 2019 27% · 2020 15% · 2021 19% · 2022 64% · 2023 73% — 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
53% of PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
64% of PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC is better cushioned than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record — $1.7M federal, $615k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$950k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$500k
- Smithsonian Institution$143k
- National Endowment for the Arts$110k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$615k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$200
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 PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 2 related entities
- Phillips James Duncan Tr Uwill · exempt
- Cruts (2) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC?
- PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,041,109 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($7,876,074). 110 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 161 organizations giving $34,041,109 in grants to PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC, 110 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,876,074 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 161 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