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THE IRVINE MUSEUM

THE IRVINE MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,500 to it, the largest being J STANLEY & MARY W JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$57k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$1.6M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What The Irvine Museum does

Programs

  1. Educational outreach programs

    $37,351 spent
  2. Exhibition programs

    $4,974 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($21M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 31 ($318k) Expenses 1 ($279k) Net assets 102 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 54 ($551k) Expenses 2 ($397k) Net assets 109 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 74 ($763k) Expenses 2 ($430k) Net assets 125 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 25 ($256k) Expenses 1 ($283k) Net assets 124 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 37 ($383k) Expenses 2 ($390k) Net assets 123 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 46 ($468k) Expenses 2 ($487k) Net assets 122 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 51 ($518k) Expenses 6 ($1.2M) Net assets 103 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 23 ($240k) Expenses 4 ($777k) Net assets 79 ($1.7M)2026 Revenue 6 ($57k) Expenses 0 ($101k) Net assets 77 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (6)Expenses (0)Net assets (77)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.2M to $1.7M (−24%).

$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.3M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.2M
$1.7M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Listed7777777777
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·000100000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $5k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $3.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Joan Irvine Smith & Athalie R Clarke Fdn). These are real filings, and they are not money THE IRVINE MUSEUM raised.

From the IRS filings of THE IRVINE MUSEUM’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 IRVINE MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 IRVINE MUSEUM.

41%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

62% of THE IRVINE MUSEUM's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like THE IRVINE MUSEUM

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE IRVINE MUSEUM?
THE IRVINE MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,500 to it, the largest being J STANLEY & MARY W JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE IRVINE MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $36,500 in grants to THE IRVINE MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE IRVINE MUSEUM?
J STANLEY & MARY W JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE IRVINE MUSEUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 4 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