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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,656,237 to it, the largest being THE LIPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,432,835). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.5M
Revenue FY2025
71
Funders on record
$16M
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
46/71 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%

Against its field

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve5.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.6M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 112 ($5.1M) Expenses 116 ($5.3M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2019 Revenue 148 ($6.8M) Expenses 112 ($5.1M) Net assets 112 ($16M)2020 Revenue 115 ($5.3M) Expenses 110 ($5.0M) Net assets 105 ($15M)2021 Revenue 116 ($5.3M) Expenses 109 ($5.0M) Net assets 123 ($18M)2022 Revenue 125 ($5.7M) Expenses 117 ($5.4M) Net assets 108 ($16M)2023 Revenue 128 ($5.9M) Expenses 134 ($6.1M) Net assets 107 ($16M)2024 Revenue 143 ($6.5M) Expenses 141 ($6.5M) Net assets 111 ($16M)2025 Revenue 120 ($5.5M) Expenses 123 ($5.6M) Net assets 117 ($17M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (123)Net assets (117)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 17% · 2019 15% · 2020 17% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% · 2024 14% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
17
$210k
18
$1.7M
19
$234k
20
$310k
21
$358k
22
$271k
23
$95k
24
$144k
25
5.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.6M.

20 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)31% 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 SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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

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 SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION.

35%
largest funder
49%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 30% · 2019 14% · 2020 23% · 2021 32% · 2022 12% · 2023 67%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

50% of SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 11 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
MD
DE
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 71 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $498k on record.

Federal$498k
grants $498kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$270k
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$228k

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 SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 15%Fundraising 10%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION?
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,656,237 to it, the largest being THE LIPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,432,835). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $15,656,237 in grants to SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION?
THE LIPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,432,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION 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 71funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing