New York · Nonprofit
The Museum at Bethel Woods
The Museum at Bethel Woods (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,443,306 to it, the largest being Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc ($2,440,868). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Museum at Bethel Woods runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Beaverkill Foundation Inclocal
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio match
- New York Council for the Humanitiesportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of The Museum at Bethel Woods’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $581k → $329k.
From the IRS filings of The Museum at Bethel Woods’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
The Museum at Bethel Woods leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of The Museum at Bethel Woods'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.
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.
- Beaverkill Foundation InclocalNY · funds 19 organizations near you
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Council for the Humanitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vytautas Burbulis Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Preservation League of New York Stateportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gilbert Mackay Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Film Preservation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding The Museum at Bethel Woods receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $186k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$143k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$43k
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 Museum at Bethel Woods
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Museum at Bethel Woods: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Museum at Bethel Woods?
- The Museum at Bethel Woods (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,443,306 to it, the largest being Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc ($2,440,868). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Museum at Bethel Woods have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,443,306 in grants to The Museum at Bethel Woods, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Museum at Bethel Woods?
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,440,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Museum at Bethel Woods 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.
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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing