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THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM
THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,278,680 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($686,955). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $79M
What The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum does
Mission
The mission of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum is to advance the understanding and appreciation of isamu noguchi's art and legacy.The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum seeks to protect and preserve isamu noguchi's work and archives, as well as to sustain his museum as a place for the exploration of individual artistic endeavors and creative collaboration. The museum also aims to expand on noguchi's legacy of wide-ranging interests and intimate artistic experience through an active exhibition, education, research, and public-programming schedule, while continuing to broaden his influence and relevance, focusing on how his work will inform contemporary culture for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Merchandisingthe noguchi museum sells functional examples of lighting and furniture designed by isamu noguchi, as well as other merchandise that is directly related to the exhibitions, and interpretative materials in the galleries to allow museum visitors to extend their aesthetic and educational experience over time.
$2,764,715 spent$6,191,425 earned by the program32% of program spendingCollectionthe noguchi museum manages the world's largest and most extensive collection of noguchi's art, and is dedicated to the preservation of this body of work. There are approximately 500 objects in the museum's permanent collection which includes stone, sculptures, ceramics, dance sets, drawings, furniture, sculptural models, portrait heads, and models for public works. While designing and curating his museum, noguchi selected several of these works to be on permanent display in the museum's galleries. In addition to showcasing its permanent collection, the noguchi museum also serves the international community by loaning works to other institutions.
$1,758,810 spent20% of program spendingExhibitionsin addition to the permanent collection installed galleries and garden at the noguchi museum, each year changing exhibitions are presented that offer new perspectives on noguchi's artistic production. In 2024, changing exhibitions included: "toshiko takaezu: worlds within" that continued onto a national tour, "miwako kurashima: folding cosmos, and "against time: the noguchi museum 40th anniversary reinstallation," celebrating the museum's 40th anniversary.
$1,649,325 spent$712,905 earned by the program19% of program spendingEducation, catalogue raisonne, public programs, and visitor services.
$2,577,245 spent29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,750,095.
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 2023 to 2024, from $74M to $83M (+12%).
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 9% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 8% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $59k → $888k.
10 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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 ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
35% 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 ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 49% · 2019 91% · 2020 49% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 28% — 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
30% of THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
78% of THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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 ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $196k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$110k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$76k
- Smithsonian Institution$9k
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 ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
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 ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM: 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 ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM?
- THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,278,680 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($686,955). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $3,278,680 in grants to THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $686,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 72 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