Texas · Nonprofit
THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC
THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC (Texas) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,821,602 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD AND BETTY MARCUS FOUNDATION ($6,818,720). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $38M
What The Contemporary Austin Museum Inc does
Mission
The contemporary austin aspires to be the contemporary art museum for austin and an essential part of city life. Through its unique combination of urban and outdoor sites, the contemporary austin will embody an eclectic and collaborative spirit.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
As austin's only museum dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting work by leading contemporary artists, the contemporary austin occupies an important position in the region's cultural landscape. Each year, the contemporary austin welcomes 60,000 visitors to the museum's two unique sites-laguna gloria on the shores of lake austin and the jones center in downtown austin. The contemporary austin is currently designing a master plan for the development of the betty and edward marcus sculpture park at laguna gloria, a space for the public to experience exceptional works of art framed by the vibrant texas landscape and the site's distinctive cultural heritage.the contemporary austin's core programs include an annual roster of exhibitions featuring new, site-responsive work by today's most innovative and ambitious artists. Recent exhibitions have featured internationally acclaimed artists ai weiwei, do ho suh, jim hodges, wangechi mutu, tom friedman, tom sachs, robert thierrien, monika sosnowska, roger hiorns, nancy holt, bruce nauman, anya gallacio,superflex, ryan gander, carol bove and trisha baga attracting coverage in national and international publications such as artforum, the new…
$2,399,114 spent$530,751 earned by the program54% of program spendingOffering more than 500 classes to 4,700 students annually, the art school at laguna gloria is one of the nation's largest museum-affiliated art schools. For more than fifty years, the art school has enabled students to expand their creativity, enhance visual awareness, and cultivate technical skills in a wide variety of media. Distinguished faculty provide instruction in painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, collage, and sculpture to students ranging in ages four through adult. Since 1980, the art school has awarded more than $425,000 in scholarships to students in need of financial assistance.
$964,294 spent$1,475,244 earned by the program22% of program spendingMission to integrate contemporary art into the fabric of city life. Deliberately diverse in scope and content, public programming includes artist's talks, film screenings, and musical performances that activate the exhibitions on view. The contemporary austin also serves as an invaluable resource for art education in the central texas region through tours, family programs, and school partnerships. Each year, more than 10,000 children in grades k-12 participate in docent-led tours, and more than 6,000 community members attend free family days at the museum. The contemporary austin actively collaborates with numerous community partners including, the austin film society, department of art and art history at the university of texas at austin, fusebox festival, texas book festival, and title I schools in the austin area.
$476,147 spent$251,815 earned by the program11% of program spendingGrounds rental and retail, education.
$609,180 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,448,735.
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 2022 to 2023, from $21M to $40M (+89%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 15% · 2021 9% · 2022 16% · 2023 0% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC’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. 5 of the last 8 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
Sharon Maidenberg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $3.8M → $1.1M.
16 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $5.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Contemporary Austin Museum Endowment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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 CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 75% · 2019 61% · 2020 46% · 2021 22% · 2022 40% · 2023 30% — 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
23% of THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
82% of THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M 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 CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC's revenue grew 20% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $135k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$135k
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 CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC?
- THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC (Texas) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,821,602 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD AND BETTY MARCUS FOUNDATION ($6,818,720). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $13,821,602 in grants to THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC?
- THE EDWARD AND BETTY MARCUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,818,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 67 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