Virginia · Nonprofit
THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED
THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,620,959 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,913,860). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $139M
What The Chrysler Museum Incorporated does
Mission
The chrysler museum of art welcomes you to connect with art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The chrysler museum of art is an educational institution that is free and open to the public. The museum presents changing exhibitions as well as a broad permanent collection from a wide array of cultures and times. To this end, the museum collects, preserves, displays and interprets original works of art for the enjoyment and education of a diverse constituency. The museum also operates a glass making studio adjacent to its main building. The glass studio offers a full program of public demonstrations and classes as well as a robust set of educational partnerships with regional colleges and universities and a dynamic visiting artist program. Studio programming is designed to complement and enrich the public's understanding and appreciation of the museum's outstanding collection of historical glass.
$16,352,650 spent$1,590,288 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,352,650.
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 $88M to $121M (+37%).
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 31% · 2018 32% · 2019 28% · 2020 32% · 2021 19% · 2022 8% · 2023 13% · 2024 13% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Erik H Neil
Executive director
Board chair
Kirk Levy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $431k → $1.3M.
10 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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: $2.0M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hampton Roads Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
70% 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 CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 35% · 2019 34% · 2020 28% · 2021 20% · 2022 58% · 2023 47% — 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
50% of THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED'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
53% of THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.6M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M 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
THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $445k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$250k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$185k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
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 CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED: 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 THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED?
- THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,620,959 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,913,860). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $5,620,959 in grants to THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,913,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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