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Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,732 to it, the largest being THE STATEN ISLAND FOUNDATION ($222,710). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $491k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum does
Mission
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate meaningful shared experiences through natural science, art, and history to deepen understanding of our environment, ourselves, and each other. The Staten Island Museum strives for:diversity, equity and inclusion informing all institutional decision-making; staff, board and volunteers reflecting all diversity of the Staten Island ommunity; providing a museum environment and program that is truly welcoming and inclusive of all people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collections & exhibitions - the current museum collection ranges from all types of objects and artifacts related to science, art, archaeology, history, and the environment of staten island. Over 2 million objects, art works, archival documents, photographs, books, and specimens are held in this collection for all visitors to learn about, research, and enjoy.
$930,349 spent$23,513 earned by the program51% of program spendingPublic programs and education - since 1907, the museum has offered a wide variety of classes, exhibitions, and research programs. Approximately 15,000 school children attended these programs to learn about art, natural science, and the cultural environment and history of s.I.
$537,312 spent$117,299 earned by the program30% of program spendingVisitor services - the front line of contact with the public, visitor services creates a welcoming and informed experience for the visitor, communicating with the public about the museum and it's programs as well as local cultural points of interest. They provides a range of client services with a focus on visitor needs to maximize their visit to the museum and staten island in general.
$339,063 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,806,724.
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 $3.4M to $3.9M (+15%).
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 72% · 2018 69% · 2019 65% · 2020 73% · 2021 68% · 2022 85% · 2023 72% · 2024 62% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum’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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Janice Monger
President & CEO
Board chair
Dolores Morris
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $27k → $28k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum’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
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 99% · 2023 45% — 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
33% of Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
85% of Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum'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. $176 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum: 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 Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum?
- Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,732 to it, the largest being THE STATEN ISLAND FOUNDATION ($222,710). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $490,732 in grants to Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum?
- THE STATEN ISLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $222,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum 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.
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 12 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