Virginia · Nonprofit
THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC
THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,403,942 to it, the largest being RHEA LINDSTROM-ENGEL CHARITABLE TRUST UA DTD 6-17-20 C/O FIRST BANK TRUSTEE ($420,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $40M
What The Glass-Glen Burnie Museum Inc does
Mission
The mission of the museum of the shenandoah valley (msv) is to preserve and enrich the cultural life and heritage of the shenandoah valley. Serving the region as a cultural site, the msv fulfills its mission by presenting exhibitions; offering educational and community programming; operating a 90-acre art park; preserving the largest green space and only working farm in the city of winchester; and building and caring for collections that tell the valley's story.the msv campus includes the glen burnie house; seven acres of formal gardens; galleries; classrooms; a makerspace studio; and the trails at the msv, a free-admission art park with walking, biking, and hiking trails and outdoor art installations. In addition, the msv manages rose hill farm park, a public park and civil war battlefield site located in frederick county about four miles from the msv winchester campus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational, community and public programs the msv utilizes its entire campus for educational and public programming.in fy 2025, the msv offered 295 educational programs serving 8,365 people of all ages. Community programs - including garden lights, concerts, juneteenth, and pride at the msv - served an additional 29,158 people. The msv makerspace studio served 1,158 individuals.youth programs included hands-on art and nature workshops and exhibition-related activities. Adult programs addressed topics including valley history, art, music, literature, and gardening. Continuing programs included virtual talks, gallery talks, garden tours, curator-led programs, and art-and garden-focused workshops. School programming engaged 3,880 students.the msv provided rent-free use of campus property to three nonprofit organizations. Through corporate underwriting and access initiatives such as museums for all and blue star museums, 8,880 non-member visitors received free general admission, and 6,075 people attended free-admission community programs.the museum store supports regional artists through a consignment program. In fy 2025, work by 66 regional artists was represented.
$3,191,933 spent$325,899 earned by the program50% of program spendingOur collection the msv cares for a permanent collection of more than 24,400 objects, encompassing shenandoah valley material culture; fine and decorative art collected by msv benefactor julian wood glass jr. (1910-1992); miniature houses assembled by r. Lee taylor (1924-2000), glass's former partner and the museum's first curator of gardens; archival materials from the valley's wood and glass families; the glen burnie queer studies collection; and a gardens and grounds collection.situated on a 194-acre landscape, the msv includes a galleries building, the glen burnie house, seven acres of formal gardens, pasture land, and the trails at the msv, a 90-acre art park.the oldest portions of the glen burnie house date to 1793, and the house sits on land originally claimed in 1735 by winchester founder james wood. The property remained in the wood and glass families until its acquisition by julian wood glass jr. In 1952. Following glass's death, the house and gardens opened to the public in 1997, with the 50,000-square-foot galleries building opening in 2005.the trails at the msv opened in 2020 and now feature more than five miles of paved and rustic trails, integrated with landscape…
$2,312,222 spent36% of program spendingOur exhibitionsthe msv includes four gallery spaces and presents permanent, rotating, and traveling exhibitions focused on the art, history, and culture of the shenandoah valley and beyond. Exhibitions are also presented annually in the glen burnie house and outdoors in the gardens.in fy 2025, the msv presented 11 exhibitions, including traveling exhibitions; exhibitions drawn from the msv's collections; and exhibitions featuring work by contemporary, regional artists.new gallery exhibitions in fy 2025 included curious by nature: works by charley & edie harper; jacob lawrence: 3 series of prints; curated chaos: collections storage unpacked; and the triumph of nature: art nouveau from the chrysler museum of art. Two outdoor exhibitions were presented in the gardens: gardens of glass: the art of craig mitchell smith and scraposaurs. New exhibitions in the glen burnie house drawing room included such beauty: floral portraits by lynn mocarski mauer and american folk: tintype portraits of appalachian musicians. Additionally, six art in the halls installations featured the work of shenandoah valley artists.
$850,256 spent$385,475 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,354,411.
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 $38M to $42M (+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: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $16k → $156k.
5 of 26 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: $32M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Glass-Glen Burnie Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
26% 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 GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 58% · 2019 64% · 2020 49% · 2021 45% · 2022 50% · 2023 51% — 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
53% of THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC'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
88% of THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $344k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $273k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$263k
- National Endowment for the Arts$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.
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
30%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Glass-Glen Burnie Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC?
- THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,403,942 to it, the largest being RHEA LINDSTROM-ENGEL CHARITABLE TRUST UA DTD 6-17-20 C/O FIRST BANK TRUSTEE ($420,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,403,942 in grants to THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC?
- RHEA LINDSTROM-ENGEL CHARITABLE TRUST UA DTD 6-17-20 C/O FIRST BANK TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC 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 26 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