Ohio · Nonprofit
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,552,811 to it, the largest being AYERS FOUNDERS TRUST ($1,546,726). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $688k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Zanesville Museum of Art does
Mission
The Zanesville Museum of Art is a catalyst igniting human imagination and understanding through the visual arts utilizing its permanent collection, facilities, exhibitions, and public programs to enhance the cultural life of the community and preserve its heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Zanesville Museum of Art offered 149 educational and interpretive public programs for adults and young people, including 21 children's activities,7 adult workshops, 6 book discussions, 8 lectures/gallery talks, 6 outreach curriculum presentations, 11 online tour experiences, 16 onsite tour experiences, 11 docent training seeions, and 63 additional online programs.
$6,234 spent1% of program spendingThe Zanesville Museum of Art provides registrations, documentation maintenance and record-keeping on more than 9,000 art objects in the permanent collections of the museum for the benefit of the general public. Marketing, publications and member services are an important part of the program services that provide an understanding for diverse expressions, and the honoring of artistic/aesthetic attainments.
$592,253 spent95% of program spendingThe Zanesville Museum of Art acquired 239 works of art, 79 by donation and 160 by purchase, and completed framing of 4 works from the permanent collection, and conserved 1 work of art. The Zanesville Museum of Art curated and presented 10 temporary exhibitions of art objects: thematic selections of over 230 total works from the permanent collection, as well as by contemporary or historic ohio artists, and works loaned from artists or non-profit organizations.
$24,937 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $623,424.
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 $4.6M to $5.6M (+20%).
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 3% · 2018 5% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 18% · 2022 4% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART’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 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 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $236k → $303k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $43k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Muskingum County Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART raised.
From the IRS filings of ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART’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
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 64% · 2019 68% · 2020 67% · 2021 64% · 2022 43% · 2023 65% — broadly stable.
“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
89% of ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 92% 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
100% of ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Ohio
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZANESVILLE 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART?
- ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,552,811 to it, the largest being AYERS FOUNDERS TRUST ($1,546,726). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,552,811 in grants to ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART?
- AYERS FOUNDERS TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,546,726 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 13 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