Indiana · Nonprofit
Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc
Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,956,820 to it, the largest being Richard G Moench Charitable Trust ($687,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc does
Mission
Operation of art museum
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of an art museum for the benefit of the general public. Admissions approximately 11,000, approximately 3,000 children participating.
$1,328,257 spent$1,706,156 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,328,257.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $3.1M to $4.9M (+56%).
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.
82% of Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Fred Nation
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $57k → $351k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $685k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc’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
Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 60% · 2020 37% · 2021 44% · 2022 41% · 2023 39% — 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
60% of Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
99% of Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc: 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 Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc?
- Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,956,820 to it, the largest being Richard G Moench Charitable Trust ($687,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,956,820 in grants to Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc?
- Richard G Moench Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $687,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 21 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