New York · Nonprofit
THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK
THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,322 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($297,770). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $822k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $950k
- Net assets
- $125k
What The Museum of Food and Drink does
Mission
Mofad is a new kind of museum that brings the world of food to life with exhibits you can taste, touch, and smell. We inspire public curiosity about food, what it means, and how it connects with the world around us.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mofad's public programs encompass a range of event offerings including public school tours, community gatherings themed around food culture, children's reading programs, and our evening program series. Our evening programming allows mofad to both expand on themes related to our exhibitions by bringing in experts in the field, from scholars, to chefs, to farmers and food policy experts and go beyond current exhibitions by offering in-depth discussions to further explore the breadth and depth of the culinary landscape with cookbook authors, tasting & drinking experiences, and even the occasional food-themed comedy hour to explore forgotten food narratives.
$403,523 spent$128,729 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $403,523.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $300k (−78%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 1% · 2021 24% · 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
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.
Board chair
Julian Yap
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $12k → $96k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 FOOD AND DRINK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 FOOD AND DRINK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 40% · 2019 87% · 2020 50% · 2021 43% · 2022 48% · 2023 52% — 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
15% of THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
58% of THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK'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 $395k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $556k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 FOOD AND DRINK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK?
- THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,322 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($297,770). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $950,322 in grants to THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $297,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK 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.
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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 24 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