New York · Nonprofit
THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS
THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,403,713 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,876,960). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $106M
What The Corning Museum of Glass does
Mission
To inspire people to see glass in a new light by engaging visitors and the community through the art, history, and science of glass; building, stewarding, and promoting the world's foremost collection of objects representing the art, history, and science of glass, and supporting the library of record on those subjects, for a broad range of current and new museum visitors, artists, and researchers; display the glass and library collections in permanent exhibitions and arrange temporary exhibitions that draw attention to particular aspects of the art and history of glass; present permanent exhibitions of glass science and technology that educate and engage visitors of all ages in the stories of historic innovations and future applications of glass and glass-related materials; provide unique opportunities to view glass artists creating new works, as well as offer opportunities for visitors to experience glassmaking firsthand through creative engagements in the studio.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Curatorial, exhibitions and research - the curatorial department, which is divided into four collecting areas, stewards, displays and interprets the world's most comprehensive collection of glass art, history, science and technology in four main permanent galleries, and through special exhibitions, programs and publications. In 2025, the museum hosted one major exhibition and eight minor exhibitions. The museum continued to invest in research residencies (2) and grants (6) and published two annual journals. As the library of distinction for the study of glass, the juliette k. And leonard s. Rakow research library sustains a vibrant, singular collection that embodies centuries of knowledge on glass, glassmaking, and glassmakers. The librarythrough collecting, preserving, and making accessible excellent research materialsadvances scholarship, creativity and the arts, and the understanding of glass throughout the realms of art, history, culture, science, and technology. The library's platform for openly accessible digital collections grew to 73,992 digital objects by the end of 2025. The library supported glass research across 27 countries, including 99,373 consultations of online…
$12,409,663 spentof which $30,000 as grants$4,643,183 earned by the program31% of program spendingStudio, education and outreach - the museum educates people of all agesin a diversity of topics about glass. Our glassmaking school, the studio, provides classes, residencies, live online programming and scholarships and residencies to artists and scholars around the world. In 2025, the museum hosted 1,875 students, instructors, and teaching assistants in a variety of classes and supported artists through sixteen residencies. On a daily basis, the museum provides a variety of glassmaking demonstrations for our visitors, which enables them to observe and learn about the art, science, technology and properties of glass. The museum expands this learning by providing hot glass outreach programs whereby we take our staff artists and mobile glassmaking demonstration equipment into a variety of venues. The museum also provides programs enabling our visitors to participate in a variety of unique hands-on glassmaking experiences. In 2025, 29% of our individual and family visitors engaged in one of these glassmaking experiences. Our education department plays an important role in providing programs for all guests, as well as students in our local school systems. In 2025, the museum hosted…
$13,408,022 spent$4,662,149 earned by the program33% of program spendingMuseum shops - the museum's shops are designed to reflect and enhance the experience of the collection. The shops include products from around the globe and many works produced locally and regionally by a variety of artists. There is a wide array of products including fine art, steuben, pyrex and corelle kitchenware, jewelry, collectibles and books and videos, offered in our almost 20,000-square-foot shop, as well as in our online shops and steuben stores.
$10,602,143 spent$6,735,549 earned by the program26% of program spendingMarketing and public relations
$3,800,778 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,220,606.
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.
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 $74M to $91M (+24%).
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 4% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 9% · 2021 21% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Jeffrey W Evenson
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $156k → $2.6M.
15 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
79% 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 CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 49% · 2019 46% · 2020 28% · 2021 25% · 2022 60% · 2023 38% — growing more concentrated.
“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
57% of THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
72% of THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS'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 $3.5M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Education$1.0M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$75k
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 CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS?
- THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,403,713 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,876,960). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $12,403,713 in grants to THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,876,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS 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.
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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 46 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