New York · Nonprofit
QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART (New York) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,732,900 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Queens Museum of Art does
Mission
The queens museum is dedicated to presenting the highest quality visual arts and educational programming for people in the new york metropolitan area, and particularly for the residents of queens, a uniquely diverse ethnic, cultural and international community.the museum fulfills its mission by designing and providing art exhibitions and educational experiences that promote the appreciation and enjoyment of art, support the creative efforts of artists, and enhance the quality of life through interpreting, collecting, and exhibiting art, architecture, and design.the queens museum presents artistic and educational programs and exhibitions that directly relate to the contemporary urban life of its constituents while maintaining the highest standards of professional, intellectual, and ethical responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitionsthe queens museum is dedicated to presenting high-quality arts and educational programming for the people of new york, particularly the residents of queens, a uniquely diverse ethnic, cultural, and international community. The museum's work honors the history of our site and the diversity of our communities through a wide-ranging and integrated program of exhibitions, educational initiatives, and public events.qm works with artists whose practices are both hyperlocal and internationally relevant. Our audiences and constituents are from intercultural, historically underrepresented communities in queens, and our admission is free. Uplifting bipoc and artists with disabilities, diverse cultures, and aesthetics are central to our mission.qm offers a full suite of arts education offerings family programs on weekends, school visits throughout the week, and in and after-school residencies with local public schools. While the new queens teens institute for art and social justice (qti) leverages qm resources to nurture thoughtful, independent young artists and the next generation of leaders in the arts and social change. Long admired by our peers, qm is a model for excellence in…
$3,752,727 spent$85,165 earned by the program76% of program spendingEducationqm offered a robust range of education programs for individuals, including k-12 school students, families, recent adult immigrants and older adults with memory loss or affected by alzheimer's, summer camp for middle school youth and teen programs for high school students in our borough. Through these on- and off-site offerings and our numerous partnerships, we provide accessible programs that ensure all those interested can engage with qm and our resources. For each of these programs, qm incorporated our permanent exhibitions as well as the current contemporary art exhibitions on view.interpretation at qm -while taking into account our uniquely diverse and multicultural constituents, we have found it increasingly important to focus on comprehensive interpretation of museum resources rather than simply translation. This interpretation initiative informed the creation of interpretation schemes for the panorama, the neustadt collection of tiffany glass, and qi 2018. Panorama kids guides were translated into spanish and mandarin, as these are the languages most spoken by our visitors. Additionally, as a part of our artaccess initiative, qm has robust programs that provide art…
$835,930 spentof which $25,000 as grants$49,130 earned by the program17% of program spendingPublic programs and community engagementfamily programsqm places value on programs that encourage families to engage in shared learning experiences through art-making and art-looking activities. An average of 30 families participate in these programs offered each sunday, in both english and spanish. This past year, workshops incorporated a variety of art-making techniques, as well as other outlets for creative expression, such as dance. Additionally, artaccess family workshops are held on the third sunday of each month, and are geared towards engaging families with children of all abilities.queens teensthe queens museum invited all new york city high schoolers to participate in our unique queens museum: queens teens x year of uncertainty youth programming. Over several months, teens had the opportunity to participate in various workshops and events around topics such as social justice, art, and college, and job readiness.this program is curated to encourage exploration and introspection into the meanings of art and creative expression while creating new possibilities for culture, kinship, and mutual support.new new yorkersfor the past 10 years, new new yorkers has provided recent…
$329,724 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,918,381.
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 $41M to $39M (−4%).
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 43% · 2018 50% · 2019 46% · 2020 45% · 2021 47% · 2022 42% · 2023 56% · 2024 45% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Sally Tallant
Executive director
Board chair
Paula Kirby
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.8M.
11 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 31% · 2019 28% · 2020 51% · 2021 26% · 2022 13% · 2023 14% — 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
40% of QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
79% of QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$735k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$565k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$40k
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 QUEENS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: 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 QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART?
- QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART (New York) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,732,900 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $12,732,900 in grants to QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 88 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