California · Nonprofit
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,127,526 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($277,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $384k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles does
Mission
The mission of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is to preserve, celebrate, and promote knowledge about quilts and textiles, their creation, their beauty, and their relationship to human culture and expression.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Exhibitions Total Museum attendance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025 was approximately 9,000 people, including paid and unpaid attendance, Free First Fridays, Community Days, tours, and special events. The Museum mounted multiple exhibitions in 2024-2025 to share and celebrate textiles and quilts and strengthen our ties with our community including - Printed and Stitched, 25 Million Stitches, Sustainability, JustQUILTS!, and Kay Sekimachi-Ingenuity and Imagination.. The Museum continues to present an off-site exhibition at Pacific International Quilt Festival, a quilt festival at the Santa Clara Convention Center that draws over 6,000 national and international quiltmakers. The Museum also has partnerships with local quilting guilds, the local neighborhood association, Next Door Solutions, and Veggielution. In addition, the Museum has begun offering classes in textile arts to the community. Lastly, the Museum holds a permanent collection of historic and contemporary quilts and fiber art.
$415,103 spent$31,410 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $415,103.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $3.0M (−10%).
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 15% · 2018 25% · 2019 17% · 2020 28% · 2021 11% · 2022 33% · 2023 50% · 2024 14% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Board chair
Melissa Leventon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $14k → $128k.
11 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Quilts & Textiles’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Quilts & Textiles has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
61% 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 Quilts & Textiles.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 47% · 2019 44% · 2020 18% · 2021 25% · 2022 22% · 2023 47% — 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
53% of San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
95% of San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $545k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 Quilts & Textiles
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 California
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
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles: 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 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles?
- San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,127,526 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($277,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,127,526 in grants to San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $277,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles 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.
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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 24 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