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THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (Florida) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,789,903 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,610,598). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated does
Mission
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Some 11 exhibitions had dates that fell within the 2025 fiscal year. Exhibition highlights include:sandy rodriguez: currents of resistance (april 5, 2025 - august 10, 2025)conjuring the spirit world: art, magic, and mediums (march 15, 2025 - june 24, 2025)robert rauschenberg: a centennial celebration (march 1, 2025 - august 3, 2025)radical clay: contemporary women artists from japan (july 27, 2024 - may 11, 2025)
$719,769 spent40% of program spendingMaintaining, interpreting, and conserving the permanent collection of over 60,000 objects as well as an archives collection and an art research library that serves the general public. The ringling had 370,596 visitors in fy25 and 8,233 membership and circle households.
$619,180 spent34% of program spendingLearning opportunities are offered to the general public, educators, and students from elementary to university level. Programs include lectures on the arts and history of the circus, family exploration activities in the galleries, lesson plans for educators about the ringling collections, university seminars on a spectrum of cultural topics, and university intern programs in which students obtain an overview of the business of museums. In addition, the ringling hosts school group tours from across the state of florida.
$459,703 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,798,652.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.4M to $7.6M (+18%).
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.
93% of THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Steven High
Executive director
Board chair
Margaret D Hausberg
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $530k → $768k.
17 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
66% 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 JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 45% · 2021 37% · 2022 45% · 2023 15% — 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
35% of THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
64% of THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 20 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Florida State University · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (Florida) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,789,903 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,610,598). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $6,789,903 in grants to THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,610,598 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 70 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