Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE BARNES FOUNDATION
THE BARNES FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 276 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,097,688 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($5,440,000). 179 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 276
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $245M
What The Barnes Foundation does
Mission
To promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture. To maintain an art gallery containing works of ancient to modern art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Visitor experience - The Barnes Foundation presents a dynamic program of permanent and temporary exhibits with special exhibitions expanding upon the permanent collection and creating fresh opportunities for visitor engagement. Fy25 featured the exhibitions matisse & renoir: new encounters at the barnes, visions, mickalene thomas: all about love, cecily brown: themes and variations.
$4,774,076 spent$2,482,220 earned by the program22% of program spendingResearch and collection - the barnes art collection is comprised of over 8,000 works of fine and decorative arts, including paintings, frames, works on papers, furniture and decorative metalwork. The barnes engages in active stewardship through collection care, conservation and research of its permanent collection.
$3,410,017 spent16% of program spendingEducation and community programs - the barnes continues to build on the founding principal of making art and cultural learning accessible to all. Adult education classes, school programs and community engagement are among the diverse onsite and offsite programing offered through the year.
$2,571,224 spent$532,242 earned by the program12% of program spendingShop & food service operations enhance the visitor experience and extends their learning through our selection of educational books and reproductions. Campus operations provide a clean, safe environment.
$10,674,730 spentof which $89,520 as grants$851,444 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,430,047.
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 2020 to 2021, from $224M to $243M (+9%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 19% · 2021 5% · 2022 10% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of THE BARNES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Thomas Collins
Executive director & president
Board chair
Aileen Kennedy Roberts
Chair, trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 65 funders to 119 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $4.6M.
20 of 276 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 THE BARNES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 276 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
THE BARNES FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
34% 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 THE BARNES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 20% · 2019 74% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% — 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
47% of THE BARNES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
59% of THE BARNES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
THE BARNES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE BARNES FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $480k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$250k
- National Endowment for the Arts$230k
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 THE BARNES FOUNDATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Trustees of Calder Gardens · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION?
- THE BARNES FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 276 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,097,688 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($5,440,000). 179 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BARNES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 276 organizations giving $46,097,688 in grants to THE BARNES FOUNDATION, 179 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BARNES FOUNDATION?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $5,440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BARNES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 276 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing