Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 359 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,174,287 to it, the largest being HESS FOUNDATION INC ($33,797,500). 241 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95M
- Funders on record
- 359
- Grants received
- $168M
- Net assets
- $1.1B
What Philadelphia Museum of Art does
Mission
The Philadelphia Museum of Art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in general, to an increasing and increasingly diverse audience as a source of delight, illumination, and lifelong learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions, curatorial, and collections(see schedule o for additional information)since our founding at the 1876 centennial exhibition, pma has accumulated one of the world's leading art collections with 245,000 works spanning 4,000 years. Highlights of the collection include:- the world's largest and most important collection of works by marcel duchamp.- the greatest collection of sculpture by constantin brancusi outside europe.- the finest public collection of auguste rodin's sculpture in the united states.- superb impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, including paul cezanne's the large bathers, vincent van gogh's sunflowers, and important paintings by edouard manet, claude monet, pierre-auguste renoir, camille pissarro, and edgar degas.- exceptional american painting, sculpture, furniture, silver, and ceramics-including the remarkable creations of the shakers and pennsylvania germans that reflect philadelphia's central role in american history.- extraordinary period rooms and architectural ensembles from around the world.the museum's landmark main building opened in 1928 at the western end of the benjamin franklin parkway. Other buildings that make up the campus…
$42,111,264 spent$7,393,630 earned by the program66% of program spendingEducation, library, and community programs for children, the disabled, and the general public provide a better understanding of the museum's collection and art in general.(see schedule o for additional information)education is at the heart of our mission and a primary means of serving our visitors and engaging new audiences. Working collaboratively with partners like the school district of philadelphia (sdp) and other community stakeholders allows pma to create programs for our visitors that respond directly to their needs. In-person school tours returned in fy25. In addition to free-guided tours for sdp and tri-state title I schools, the museum expanded access by offering free transportation and hosting school tours on tuesdays and wednesdays during a special exhibition when the museum is typically closed to the public. We served more than 36,000 prek-12 students through on-site tours, afterschool and out-of-school programs, outreach programs, and school partnerships. We also continued offering in-person educator professional development and provided digital curriculum resources for educators and children. The division of learning and engagement has developed a robust schedule of…
$9,588,757 spent$68,997 earned by the program15% of program spendingAuxiliary activities and public relations(see schedule o for additional information)the museum continues to broaden its reach through partnerships and collaborations.during the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, the museum welcomed 672,484 visitors. We engage visitors through creativity in the presentation and interpretation of our collection and special exhibitions. We recognize that surprise, delight, and inspiration are essential to the experience of great works of art.
$11,929,223 spent$1,990,321 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: $63,629,244.
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 $1.0B to $1.1B (+8%).
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 20% · 2018 13% · 2019 16% · 2021 14% · 2022 17% · 2023 5% · 2024 8% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART’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. 1 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
Alexandra Svatava Suda
Director and CEO
Board chair
Ellen T Caplan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 85 funders to 161 funders, grant income rose $16M → $22M.
18 of 359 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $6.0M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Philadelphia Museum of Art Womens Committee). These are real filings, and they are not money PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART raised.
From the IRS filings of PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 359 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
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 17% · 2019 16% · 2020 35% · 2021 44% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% — 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
52% of PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART'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
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record — $1.6M federal, $2k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$1.3M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$300k
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
- NJ$2k
- DE$282
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 PHILADELPHIA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Charitable Remainder Trusts - Pa (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trusts - Pa (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trusts - Nc (3) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trusts - Ny (1) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART?
- PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 359 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,174,287 to it, the largest being HESS FOUNDATION INC ($33,797,500). 241 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 359 organizations giving $168,174,287 in grants to PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, 241 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART?
- HESS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,797,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 359 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