Washington · Nonprofit
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma Art Museum (Washington) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,069,355 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($526,442). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $58M
What Tacoma Art Museum does
Mission
Tacoma Art Museum transforms our communities by sharing art that inspires broader perspectives and cultivates a compassionate future
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
TAM presented 9 total exhibitions during FY25, including Impressionism at TAM, a partnership with Tacoma Arts Live to highlight Impressionism in our collection, always a popular draw among visitors; and Soft Power which used primarily textiles as a medium to express cultural heritage, & amplify social criticism.
$1,451,367 spent$203,762 earned by the program48% of program spendingMuseum services includes the TAM store, TAM Caf, and visitor services. The store features local artist designed jewelry, ceramics, and books by local authors and reflect current exhibitions. TAM caf offers freshly made entrees
$981,421 spent$294,355 earned by the program32% of program spendingTAM's education program empowers visitors to find and create meaning with art in order to build an empathetic and collaborative community through programs and tours, in gallery activities and audio tours, art workshops and creative opportunities. During one of TAM's most popular programs, Neighborhood Nights, the museum is free and open to the public every Thursday from 5-8pm.
$320,303 spent$21,764 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther Program Services
$274,193 spent$128,687 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,027,284.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $74M to $66M (−11%).
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: 2021 20% · 2022 11% · 2023 31% · 2024 8% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of Tacoma Art Museum’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $338k → $547k.
13 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $270k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Tacoma Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Tacoma Art Museum raised.
From the IRS filings of Tacoma Art Museum’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. 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
Tacoma Art Museum has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 Tacoma Art Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 38% · 2019 25% · 2020 27% · 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.
“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
30% of Tacoma Art Museum's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
58% of Tacoma Art Museum's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $631k 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
Tacoma Art Museum's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Tacoma Art Museum receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 Tacoma Art 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tacoma Art Museum Endowment Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tacoma Art 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 Tacoma Art Museum?
- Tacoma Art Museum (Washington) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,069,355 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($526,442). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tacoma Art Museum have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $4,069,355 in grants to Tacoma Art Museum, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tacoma Art Museum?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $526,442 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tacoma Art Museum find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 60 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