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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 $6,759,903 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.

$2.9M
Revenue FY2025
70
Funders on record
$6.8M
Grants received
$7.7M
Net assets
33/70 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%

Against its field

THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($5.9M)2018 Revenue 94 ($2.3M) Expenses 113 ($2.3M) Net assets 102 ($6.0M)2019 Revenue 109 ($2.7M) Expenses 127 ($2.6M) Net assets 104 ($6.2M)2020 Revenue 103 ($2.5M) Expenses 121 ($2.5M) Net assets 105 ($6.2M)2021 Revenue 77 ($1.9M) Expenses 56 ($1.1M) Net assets 127 ($7.5M)2022 Revenue 79 ($1.9M) Expenses 85 ($1.7M) Net assets 119 ($7.1M)2023 Revenue 96 ($2.3M) Expenses 94 ($1.9M) Net assets 129 ($7.6M)2024 Revenue 137 ($3.4M) Expenses 163 ($3.3M) Net assets 133 ($7.9M)2025 Revenue 117 ($2.9M) Expenses 169 ($3.5M) Net assets 129 ($7.7M)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (169)Net assets (129)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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 (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$406k
17
$6k
18
$72k
19
$50k
20
$738k
21
$201k
22
$414k
23
$39k
24
$569k
25
5.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

24%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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, 68% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 22 states.

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
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FL

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

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23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 70 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

52% of spending goes to programs.

Program 52%Management 34%Fundraising 14%

Governance

30
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Florida State University · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: 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 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 $6,759,903 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 $6,759,903 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.

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 70funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing