New York · Nonprofit
THE JEWISH MUSEUM
THE JEWISH MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 675 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,560,585 to it, the largest being BARNETT AND ANNALEE NEWMAN FOUNDATION ($11,239,000). 445 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 675
- Grants received
- $59M
- Net assets
- $162M
What The Jewish Museum does
Mission
The mission of The Jewish Museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. See schedule o for more information.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum programs, general/other:The Jewish Museum is an art museum committed to illuminating the complexity and vibrancy of jewish culture for a global audience. Through distinctive exhibitions and programs that present the work of diverse artists and thinkers, we share ideas, provoke dialogue, and promote understanding. (continued on schedule o)The Jewish Museum was the first institution of its kind in the united states and is one of the oldest jewish museums in the world. The museum maintains a unique collection of nearly 30,000 works of art, ceremonial objects, and media reflecting the global jewish experience over more than 4,000 years. Located on new york city's museum mile, in the landmarked warburg mansion, The Jewish Museum is a welcoming home to an ever-changing and dynamic range of opportunities for exploring multiple facets of the global jewish experience.in addition to engaging history: works from the collection, recent temporary exhibitions included draw them in, paint them out: trenton doyle hancock confronts philip guston; ilit azoulay: mere things; the book of esther in the age of rembrandt; and ben shahn, on nonconformity. The museum also presents the new york…
$11,443,519 spent$2,989,376 earned by the program60% of program spendingArt museum conservation programs:acquisition, storage, conservation and maintenance of collection of judaica objects, art (sculpture, paintings and photographs), film related to art and jewish culture.
$7,746,165 spent40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,189,684.
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 2021 to 2022, from $170M to $130M (−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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 1% · 2022 15% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of THE JEWISH MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Shari Aronson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 187 funders to 274 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $8.2M.
20 of 675 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $8.5M from 20 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE JEWISH MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of THE JEWISH MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 675 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 JEWISH MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 20% · 2019 14% · 2020 17% · 2021 59% · 2022 18% · 2023 12% — 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
45% of THE JEWISH MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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 JEWISH 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. $9.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 JEWISH MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE JEWISH MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $440k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$340k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$100k
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 JEWISH 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JEWISH 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 JEWISH MUSEUM?
- THE JEWISH MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 675 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,560,585 to it, the largest being BARNETT AND ANNALEE NEWMAN FOUNDATION ($11,239,000). 445 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JEWISH MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 675 organizations giving $58,560,585 in grants to THE JEWISH MUSEUM, 445 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JEWISH MUSEUM?
- BARNETT AND ANNALEE NEWMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,239,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JEWISH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 675 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