New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,926,768 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($4,075,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- The Summit Foundationshared funders
- Souls Grown Deep Foundation Incportfolio match
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio 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: 2017 31% · 2018 24% · 2019 42% · 2020 61% · 2021 21% · 2022 56% · 2023 63% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $639k → $1.8M.
9 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $695k from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of New Jersey). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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 NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 89% · 2019 38% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 30% · 2023 21% — 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
49% of THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
73% of THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $508k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
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 68 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Summit Foundationshared fundersNJ · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Souls Grown Deep Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leads Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Netherland-America Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ns Goldstein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Advancement in Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundIncportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pilara Family Foundationportfolio 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 NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.6M on record — $436k federal, $43.2M state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$295k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$91k
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
- GRANT IN AID$38.9M
- STATE AID$2.7M
- TRUST FUND$857k
- FEDERAL$578k
- BOND FUND$78k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$48k
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 NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: 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 NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,926,768 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($4,075,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $10,926,768 in grants to THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 68funders 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