California · Nonprofit
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,335,434 to it, the largest being MARTIN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WORKSHOP INC ($3,379,054). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 182
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $220M
What The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles does
Mission
The museum of contemporary art (the museum) is a california nonprofit corporation established in 1979 as the only artist-founded museum in los angeles. The museum is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art and houses one of the most compelling collections of contemporary art in the world, comprising approximately8,000 objects.the museum is committed to the collection, presentation, and interpretation of art created after 1940, in all media, and to preserving that work for future generations. The museum provides leadership in the field by identifying and presenting the most significant and challenging art of our time, actively supporting the creation of new work, and producing original scholarship. The museum engages audiences through an ambitious program of free exhibitions, educational programs, and publishing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Curatorial and exhibition programs: moca continued its dynamic exhibition program with the collection shows "reverberations," "diary of flowers: artists and their worlds, and "fictions of display," which highlighted artworks from the museum's renowned collection of nearly 8,000 contemporary artworks from 1940 to the present by established and emerging artists. Moca also presented major exhibitions of the artists josh kline and olafur eliasson, and featured the first solo museum presentations in los angeles of artists ana segovia and takako yamaguchi as part of its relaunched moca: focus series. Lastly, the group exhibition at the museum, ordinary people: photorealism and the work of art since 1968," included paintings, drawings, and sculptures by more than forty artists. Moca also presented a robust schedule of performances as part of its wonmi's warehouse program. Highlights included the world premiere of nadya tolokonnikova's (pussy riot) new durational performance installation "police state", the us premiere if wael shawky's acclaimed film installation "drama 1882", and the west coast premiere of dynasty handbag's "titanic depression".
$9,266,152 spent$1,036,740 earned by the program48% of program spendingBuilding operations and security:moca has two facilities in the downtown los angeles neighborhood: the moca grand avenue building, designed by celebrated japanese architect arata isozaki, and the geffen contemporary building, renovated by renowned california architect frank gehry. Both facilities require security 24-hours a day, seven days a week, and are properly maintained to ensure the safety of all artworks in moca's care. In consultation with its environmental council and advisors, moca's environmental and sustainability strategist leads the museum's sustainability efforts and environmentally focused programming.
$5,383,838 spent28% of program spendingPublic affairs/information: moca's communications department produces a variety of promotional, advertising, and public announcements to inform the public of moca's exhibitions, programming, and collection . Moca's communications outreach included robust marketing & advertising campaigns, public relations efforts, paid & organic social media campaigns, and digital offerings across owned and earned platforms.
$2,848,014 spent15% of program spendingPublic engagement, learning & impact: moca is committed to providing enriching experiences to maximize access and inclusion in the arts. Education programming includes contemporary art start (cas) partnerships with teachers and schools, a nationally recognized teen program, and offerings for families. A variety of public programs connect audiences and artists with exhibitions and environmental sustainability through panel discussions, talks, tours, concerts, and more.
$1,849,490 spent$451,693 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,347,494.
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 $173M to $217M (+25%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 6% · 2023 11% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 58 funders to 65 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $4.0M.
13 of 182 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $5.4M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES raised.
From the IRS filings of THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 182 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
26% 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 32% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 23% · 2022 16% · 2023 18% — 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
39% of THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
66% of THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$200k
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 OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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
- Moca Tv LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES?
- THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,335,434 to it, the largest being MARTIN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WORKSHOP INC ($3,379,054). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 182 organizations giving $37,335,434 in grants to THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES?
- MARTIN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WORKSHOP INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,379,054 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 182 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