New York · Nonprofit
SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,236,833 to it, the largest being ELLSWORTH KELLY FOUNDATION INC ($2,100,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Shaker Museum and Library does
Mission
Shaker museum elevates shaker material culture to animate shaker values and beliefs and inspire individuals and communities to deepen bonds and seek meaningful approaches to social, economic, environmental, and spiritual issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Collections care and stewardship - with more than 18,000 objects, shaker museum stewards the most comprehensive collection of shaker material culture and archives. The museum's extensive collection and archive of shaker manuscripts, imprints, photographs, ephemera, and secondary Shaker Museum and Library research materials attract visitors and researchers from the united states and abroad. The museum encourages and supports study and research in the collection, as well as its interpretation, through exhibitions organized by the museum and in collaboration with other institutions and through loans to other institutions. Museum staff also respond to inquiries from researchers and the public about shaker history and object provenance. Shaker museum's collection is displayed on its website, shakermuseum.us, with both information and images in an online database that is free and fully publicly accessible.
$319,788 spent41% of program spendingExhibitions, tours, and workshops - shaker museum is in the process of renovating and building an expansive new facility designed by seldorf architects. The physical building will embody shaker values of inclusion, innovation, and equality to create a museum that showcases shaker museum's collection, hosts exhibitions, tells the shaker story, and is responsive to the needs of the community. While the museum is under construction, the collections are accessible online, through guided tours of the storage area, and in exhibitions at temporary "pop-up" locations. Programs and workshops also connect shaker museum with the public.
$322,453 spent$14,228 earned by the program42% of program spendingHistorical site preservation and conservation - shaker museum stewards the north family historic site at mount lebanon. Founded in 1787, mount lebanon was the first official community organized by the shakers and was the leader in administrative and spiritual matters for all the shaker communities that emerged throughout new england and south and west into kentucky, ohio, and florida. Its community planning, architecture, commercial and industrial endeavors, as well as its spiritual practices, became models for the other shaker villages. At its peak in the mid-19th century, mount lebanon spanned over 6,000 acres and around 600 people lived and worked in hundreds of buildings. Within this central community the shakers developed their progressive ideas on gender equality, racial equality, pacifism, communal property, the value of labor, and sustainability. They also established the now famous shaker aesthetic of simplicity, expressed in their objects, furniture, buildings, and village planning. Today visitors to the north family encounter 10 original shaker buildings on 91 acres. Visitors are welcome year-round, weather permitting, to stroll the grounds, hike the north pasture…
$128,628 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $770,869.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.1M to $8.0M (+58%).
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 4% · 2021 12% · 2022 6% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY’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. 2 of the last 8 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
Paul Cassidy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $1k → $556k.
11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY’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
SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 91% · 2019 57% · 2020 37% · 2021 76% · 2022 61% · 2023 49% — 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 SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY'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
92% of SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY'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. $2.2M 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
SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY 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
Government funding SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $554k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$554k
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 SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY?
- SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,236,833 to it, the largest being ELLSWORTH KELLY FOUNDATION INC ($2,100,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,236,833 in grants to SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY?
- ELLSWORTH KELLY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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