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THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART

THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,006,397 to it, the largest being PUTNAM FOUNDATION TRUST XXXXX7002 ($6,565,175). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.7M
Revenue FY2025
32
Funders on record
$15M
Grants received
$56M
Net assets
18/32 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Months of reserve6.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($36M)2018 Revenue 125 ($2.2M) Expenses 120 ($2.3M) Net assets 103 ($37M)2019 Revenue 114 ($2.0M) Expenses 113 ($2.2M) Net assets 101 ($37M)2020 Revenue 543 ($9.4M) Expenses 112 ($2.2M) Net assets 116 ($42M)2021 Revenue 115 ($2.0M) Expenses 79 ($1.5M) Net assets 131 ($48M)2022 Revenue 116 ($2.0M) Expenses 88 ($1.7M) Net assets 131 ($48M)2023 Revenue 719 ($13M) Expenses 129 ($2.5M) Net assets 153 ($56M)2024 Revenue 111 ($1.9M) Expenses 136 ($2.6M) Net assets 156 ($57M)2025 Revenue 157 ($2.7M) Expenses 151 ($2.9M) Net assets 155 ($56M)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (151)Net assets (155)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 12% · 2019 8% · 2020 2% · 2021 13% · 2022 28% · 2023 4% · 2024 20% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$203k
17
$146k
18
$219k
19
$7.3M
20
$465k
21
$308k
22
$10M
23
$717k
24
$200k
25
6.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $807k → $2.6M.

7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)8% 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 PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 79% · 2019 64% · 2020 69% · 2021 50% · 2022 63% · 2023 60%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

58% of THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 10 states in all.

IL
NY
OH
PA
CA
UT
DE
AZ
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

03Its place in the field

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 32 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

41%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART: 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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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 PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART?
THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,006,397 to it, the largest being PUTNAM FOUNDATION TRUST XXXXX7002 ($6,565,175). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $15,006,397 in grants to THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART?
PUTNAM FOUNDATION TRUST XXXXX7002 is the largest funder on record, with $6,565,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART 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.

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 32funders 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