Who Supports American Art Museums? Introducing a New Dataset and Data Sources about Museum Funding - Albert-László Barabási and Louis Shekhtman

The goal of the form is, as stated by the IRS, to increase charities’ financial transparency and allow the government to ensure that the work of the charity aligns with what is needed for tax-exempt status.5 The 990 forms are publicly accessible once they are processed, although there is a lag between the end of a charity’s fiscal year, their tax filing, and the public release of that filing by th. [...] Example donor section from an annual report from the Addison Gallery of American Art, with a list of donors and the range of amounts they gave to support the institution. [...] The first data source is the institution’s annual report, which often contains a list of donors who supported the institution in that year; we include in parentheses the year of the annual report. [...] The notable “flowerlike” patterns—with the institutions (in pink) in the center and the gold board members around them—highlight the limited interconnectivity between boards and the small number of individuals who serve on multiple art boards. [...] The Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Folk Art Museum had considerably more foundation donors than any of the other institutions involved with American art.