Arizona · Nonprofit
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,880,899 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($4,920,743). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Phoenix Art Museum does
Mission
Phoenix Art Museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. This mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. Be a space of belonging.2. Practice thoughtful collection stewardship.3. Present impactful art experiences.4. Serve as a center for enrichment and community-focused engagement.5. Prioritize institutional capacity and agility.6. Serve as a model for good governance and management.7. Strengthen financial sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collections and exhibitions: Phoenix Art Museum is a nonprofit museum founded in 1959. The main purpose of the museum is to engage the broadest segment of the population with the historical and aesthetic attributes of the visual and associated performing arts. Our fine arts collection consists of more than 21,000 purchased and donated works of asian, latin american, european, american, modern, and contemporary art and fashion. On average, the museum has welcomed 300,000 visitors per year for the past decade.in fy25, exhibition highlights included: the world of anna sui, showcasing the rock-and-roll-inspired fashions from the personal archive of the iconic american designer. Greatest fits: the art of archiving fashion, a "living" exhibition of rotating ensembles that showcase more than 100 of the fashion collection's finest works charlies gaines: 1992 2023, illuminating the career of a preeminent figure in contemporary art widely known for converting images and text-based documents into numerical structures, musical notations, and other sign systems through rigorous translation mechanisms. Charles gaines: numbers and trees (arizona series), showcasing gaines' new series features…
$10,464,539 spent$3,492,209 earned by the program88% of program spendingEducation and community engagement: the museum's education and community engagement team develops, implements, and oversees education programs and arts-engagement events and experiences for a wide range of audiences. The museum's library preserves and develops an extensive collection of art-related scholarly and rare publications. The library is open to staff and the public for research and enjoyment.in fy25, the museum engaged more than 204,900 community members through on-site arts engagement programs, including docent-led tours for adults and school groups, senior coffee socials for members 65 and older, storytime in the gallery sessions for visitors 0-5 years old and their caregivers, and other intergenerational programming. The museum also engaged more than 59,800 free-access visitors through first fridays, family fundays, pay-what-you-wish wednesdays, and other voluntary-donation periods.
$916,391 spent$278,916 earned by the program8% of program spendingMuseum store: the museum store enhances the visitor experience by offering products related to exhibitions and artworks on view in the museum, ensuring engagement with phxart and the visual arts long after guests have left the museum campus and returned home.
$469,319 spent$437,377 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,850,249.
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 $9.0M to $13M (+40%).
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 1% · 2020 8% · 2021 22% · 2022 12% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of PHOENIX ART MUSEUM’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. 5 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
Jeremy Mikolajczak
The sybil harrington director & CEO
Board chair
Donald Opartney
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 41 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.4M.
12 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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: $24M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Phoenix Art Museum Endowment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PHOENIX ART MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of PHOENIX ART MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
38% 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 PHOENIX ART MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 32% · 2019 16% · 2020 26% · 2021 23% · 2022 77% · 2023 13% — 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
42% of PHOENIX ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
81% of PHOENIX ART MUSEUM's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M 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
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM's funding base is broadening — from 41 funders to 55 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PHOENIX ART MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $406k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$241k
- National Endowment for the Arts$165k
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 PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Arizona Costume Institute · disregarded
- Phoenix Art Museum Endowment Fund Inc · exempt
- Phoenix Men's Art Council · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM?
- PHOENIX ART MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,880,899 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($4,920,743). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHOENIX ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $17,880,899 in grants to PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX ART MUSEUM?
- Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $4,920,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHOENIX ART MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 135 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