Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD
THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,256,411 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($950,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What The Mattress Factory Ltd does
Mission
The mattress factory is an artist-centered museum, international residency program and renowned producer and presenter of installation art. We say "yes" to artists, offering time and space to dream and realize projects in our hometown, pittsburgh, pa. We invite audiences from around the world and around the corner to step inside, immerse and connect with the artistic process.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artistic program - exhibition costs including materials, labor, artist stipends, travel and housing, marketing expenses, curatorial and archival staff salaries and benefits, collection maintenance, and facility and administrative costs.
$749,108 spent$552,978 earned by the program38% of program spendingEducation program provide a large variety of education programs provided for free or at low-cost. Programs serve learners of all ages, including students, teachers and families in our urban neighborhood. Standing programs include guided tours, after school programs, classes for families, free admission days, teen programs, school programs and extensive outreach programs. Digital programming offered as well where applicable.
$166,067 spent$15,982 earned by the program8% of program spendingVisitor services in a post-covid environment, the mattress factory continues to welcome thousands of in-person visitors. Front of house staff includes gallery attendants, mf shop and caf staff as well as facilities and administrative personnel.
$503,060 spent25% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$574,408 spent$69,628 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,992,643.
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 $6.3M to $7.8M (+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 7% · 2018 19% · 2019 12% · 2020 22% · 2021 29% · 2022 13% · 2023 14% · 2024 42% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
David Oresick
Executive director
Board chair
Sherry Ducarme
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $183k → $1.1M.
9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 MATTRESS FACTORY LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 MATTRESS FACTORY LTD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 38% · 2019 42% · 2020 24% · 2021 46% · 2022 43% · 2023 23% — 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
38% of THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
95% of THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $672k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 MATTRESS FACTORY LTD 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
Government funding THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $260k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$250k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
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 MATTRESS FACTORY LTD
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD: 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 MATTRESS FACTORY LTD?
- THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,256,411 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($950,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,256,411 in grants to THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 37 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