Delaware · Nonprofit
SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (Delaware) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,660 to it, the largest being ART BRIDGES INC ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Sewell C Biggs Trust the Biggs Museum of American Art does
Mission
Dedication to the awareness of american art and its impact on our culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The biggs museum is dedicated to developing awareness, understanding, and appreciation of fine and decorative arts and their impact on our culture, and to the enrichment of our cultural lives by collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting the fine and decorative arts for a diverse audience.
$1,840,997 spent$16,047 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,840,997.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $20M (+38%).
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: 2018 13% · 2019 6% · 2020 13% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN 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. 1 of the last 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $10k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART’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
SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 66% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 61% · 2022 99% · 2023 61% — 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
40% of SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN 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 Delaware
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
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART?
- SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (Delaware) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,660 to it, the largest being ART BRIDGES INC ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $107,660 in grants to SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART?
- ART BRIDGES INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 10 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