California · Nonprofit
THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM
THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,932,216 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,405,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $-2375051
What The Walt Disney Family Museum does
Mission
The Walt Disney Family Museum presents an inspirational journey though the life of walter elias disney. Our mission is two-fold: to inform present and future generations about the man and, through his story, to inspire them to heed their imagination and persevere in pursuing their goals. To execute this mission, the organization provides related educational, outreach, and public programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of The Walt Disney Family Museum - 2023 attendance totaled approximately 185,000 admissions to the museum and its special exhibitions, while virtual events were attended by approximately 5,000. Admissions were severely impacted by the closure of the museum on march 6, 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic. The museum reopened with reduced hours in april 2021. In the diane disney miller special exhibition hall, the museum's original exhibition, "walt disney's the jungle book: making a masterpiece" followed by "disney cats and dogs". "spirit of the season: a community art exhibition", "creative conservation: the art of endangered animals", and "chris miller: kaleidoscope", were followed by "pencils and passion: a student art exhibition and "pawsibilities unleashed: a pet portrait exhibition" in the main museum's lower lobby.2020-2021 special exhibition, "the walt disney studios and world war ii", travelled to the national war museum in new orleans for a successful run in 2023 and will travel to the pearl harbor museum aviation museum in honolulu in 2024.the museum also offers special events and group tours. In 2023, 2,250 guests attended special events and 1,650 attended…
$7,894,247 spent$2,344,043 earned by the program83% of program spendingEducational programs are designed to amplify the museum's mission. They earn national recognition for effective delivery of steam (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) curriculum and for promoting creativity and hands-on skill building. In 2023, 3,020 school children and 630 chaperones toured the museum and participated in correlated studio experiences. Our educators also taught students virtually throughout the year and led virtual field trips to the museum, hosting 630 students and 30 chaperones in online visits by the end of 2023. Educators taught 840 children offsite at partner schools over the course of the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school year. This included teaching our animation certificate program, local residents of east palo alto, california at the epacenter art facility, and students in our distance learning program in new hampshire from new hampton school. Educators also provided in-house art classes and workshops for all ages, and summer classes for youth between the ages of 8 and 20. In addition, 1,335 students/guests, 5 years and up, attended studio classes related to art and animation and participated in summer classes, studio series, pop up studios,…
$1,267,540 spent$106,708 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe museum presents film screenings and live public programs, including talks, panel discussions, storytimes, community days, and workshops, to engage and serve diverse audiences with activities that support and amplify the museum's mission. Attendance at virtual special events topped 621,000 participants. Public programs were attended by 2,400 visitors in 2023. Public programs include films and lectures associated with walt disney, animation, imagineering, and related topics.
$311,519 spent$29,578 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,473,306.
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 2017 to 2018, from $61M to $56M (−8%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 43% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM’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. 7 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.
Chief executive
Kirsten Komoroske
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $271k → $185k.
9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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: $53M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Walt and Lilly Disney Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM’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 WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% 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
77% 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 WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 70% · 2019 74% · 2020 69% · 2021 83% · 2022 77% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
77% of THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM'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 $911k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M 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 WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.9M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
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 4 related entities
- Walt Disney Family Museum LLC · disregarded
- The Walt and Lilly Disney Foundation · exempt
- Walt Disney Family Foundation · exempt
- Diane and Ron Miller Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM?
- THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,932,216 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,405,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,932,216 in grants to THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,405,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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