Totals
- Total revenue
- $14,577,792
- Total expenses
- $11,834,623
- Contributions and grants received
- $8,133,829
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $1,096,652
- Investment income
- $5,525,364
- Other revenue
- -$178,053
- Total assets, end of year
- $96,084,807
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $2,086,641
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $93,998,166
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $8,425,837
- Management and general expenses
- $717,278
- Fundraising expenses
- $2,691,508
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $8,425,837
Program services were 71.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1b · Membership dues
$443,959
-
1e · Government grants (contributions)
$50,000
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$7,639,870
-
1g · Noncash contributions included above
$1,343,037
-
2a · Program service revenue: Admissions
total $648,132 · related or exempt $648,132
-
2b · Program service revenue: Program Revenues
total $448,520 · related or exempt $448,520
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3 · Investment income
total $1,518,090 · excluded $1,518,090
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $4,007,274
-
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $0
-
7c · Gain or loss
securities $4,007,274
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $4,007,274 · excluded $4,007,274
-
10a · Gross sales of inventory
$384,034
-
10b · Cost of goods sold
$562,087
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total -$178,053 · excluded -$178,053
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $913,897 · program services $622,729 · fundraising $291,168
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $4,957,235 · program services $3,044,019 · management and general $246,293 · fundraising $1,666,923
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $157,272 · program services $91,516 · management and general $10,635 · fundraising $55,121
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $270,032 · program services $166,775 · management and general $12,674 · fundraising $90,583
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $424,103 · program services $264,291 · management and general $18,154 · fundraising $141,658
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $184,232 · program services $150,648 · management and general $10,624 · fundraising $22,960
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $73,100 · program services $59,775 · management and general $4,215 · fundraising $9,110
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $258,890 · management and general $258,890
-
11g · Fees: other
total $767,663 · program services $627,725 · management and general $44,268 · fundraising $95,670
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $399,456 · program services $344,719 · management and general $3,485 · fundraising $51,252
-
13 · Office expenses
total $60,971 · program services $54,064 · management and general $1,687 · fundraising $5,220
-
14 · Information technology
total $329,062 · program services $288,628 · management and general $10,216 · fundraising $30,218
-
16 · Occupancy
total $536,272 · program services $507,154 · management and general $5,280 · fundraising $23,838
-
17 · Travel
total $87,475 · program services $79,196 · management and general $363 · fundraising $7,916
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $23,415 · program services $13,775 · management and general $3,254 · fundraising $6,386
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $465,282 · program services $273,899 · management and general $72,132 · fundraising $119,251
-
23 · Insurance
total $141,441 · program services $135,586 · management and general $1,030 · fundraising $4,825
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24a · Other expenses: Acquisition of Art
total $591,920 · program services $591,920
-
24b · Other expenses: Exhibition & Collection
total $566,284 · program services $564,677 · management and general $282 · fundraising $1,325
-
24c · Other expenses: Fundraising
total $329,505 · program services $257,484 · management and general $13,068 · fundraising $58,953
-
24d · Other expenses: Education
total $297,116 · program services $287,257 · management and general $728 · fundraising $9,131
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $11,356,897 · end of year $13,424,815
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $11,157,922 · end of year $4,558,755
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $232,896 · end of year $27,884
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $131,405 · end of year $218,892
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $204,971 · end of year $170,575
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$35,263,539
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$18,221,199
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $17,501,213 · end of year $17,042,340
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $21,826,444 · end of year $15,592,356
-
12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $27,760,883 · end of year $37,522,046
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $4,204,639 · end of year $7,527,144
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $1,638,818 · end of year $1,736,639
-
19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $373,510 · end of year $350,002
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $26,657,463 · end of year $29,703,266
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $65,707,479 · end of year $64,294,900
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Art for All. The Portland Museum of Art seeks to create an inclusive space that champions open expression and makes art accessible to all.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Museum/Educational
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Educational Programs: Create outstanding educational programs and collection-based activities to inspire and enrich the lives of diverse audiences and serve as a vital cultural center for the city and region (63,086 participants in 2024).
Expenses $1,748,991 · Revenue $448,520
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Exhibitions and Collections: Originate outstanding exhibitions from PMA's permanent collection and through borrowed works of art. Present traveling exhibitions that support and extend PMA's mission. Preserve, document, and interpret over 19,000 objects in the collection and five architectural landmarks (127,641 visitors in 2024).
Expenses $6,084,926 · Revenue $648,132
-
Collection Items Purchased: 42 works of art were purchased for PMA's collection in 2024, providing new opportunities for visitors and the community to experience original work.
Expenses $591,920
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Erik K Hayward
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Eileen T Gillespie
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Clayton Spencer
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Mark J Morrissette
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Kyo Bannai
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Elizabeth T McCandless
Trustee/Past President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Katherine MB Berger
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Kenneth A Blaschke
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Maury Barondes Bohan
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Edwin Cahill
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Paige A Carter
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Tae Chong
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Lila Hunt Davies
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Cyrus Y Hagge
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Jocelyn R Handy
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Sharyn M Howell
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Elizabeth A Jabar
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Susie Konkel
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Bree A LaCasse
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Judy Glickman Lauder
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Leeann M Leahy
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Andy Lilienthal
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Dimitri M Michaud
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Marcia Minter
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Rodney D Moore
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Jane A Parker
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Christine F Petra
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Theresa Secord
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Jack Soley
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Stewart Strawbridge
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Troy Trejo
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Joan Carpenter Troccoli
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Kristin Kellogg Valdmanis
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Karen B Watson
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Amy H Woodhouse
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Mark Bessire
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $420,894
- From this org
- $348,127
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $72,767
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $348,127
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $11,301
- Nontaxable benefits
- $61,466
- Filer's total
- $420,894
-
Elizabeth Jones
Sr. Deputy Director/COO
- Total calculated
- $273,391
- From this org
- $255,631
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $17,760
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $255,631
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $8,372
- Nontaxable benefits
- $9,388
- Filer's total
- $273,391
-
Andrew Smaha
Chief Financial Officer
- Total calculated
- $219,612
- From this org
- $192,920
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $26,692
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $192,920
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $6,375
- Nontaxable benefits
- $20,317
- Filer's total
- $219,612
-
Shalini Le Gall
Chief Curator
- Total calculated
- $230,425
- From this org
- $199,747
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $30,678
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $199,747
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $6,544
- Nontaxable benefits
- $24,134
- Filer's total
- $230,425
-
Graeme Kennedy
Past Creative Director/Dir. of PR
- Total calculated
- $117,050
- From this org
- $115,170
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $1,880
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Alyssa Levesque
Director of HR
- Total calculated
- $131,662
- From this org
- $113,997
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $17,665
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Ashleigh McKown
Director of Philanthropy
- Total calculated
- $136,089
- From this org
- $102,505
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $33,584
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Lane Brenner
Director of Major Gifts
- Total calculated
- $114,306
- From this org
- $100,821
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,485
- Hours/week
- 40
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 1a · Travel for companions
- 1a · Health or social club dues or initiation fees
- 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
- 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Independent compensation consultant
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
Answered no
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- Part I, Line 1a
- PMA paid $3,720 for a membership fee and dues to Portland's Cumberland Club, for Mark H.C. Bessire, Executive Director. The Cumberland Club is adjacent to the Portland Museum of Art, and membership allows the Director to host meetings for the purpose of conducting museum business. PMA paid travel expenses for a companion of Mark H.C. Bessire, Executive Director. The amount paid by PMA was not treated as taxable compensation. These expenses were documented and approved by the President of the Board of Trustees as bona fide business expenses.
- Part I, Lines 4a-b
- During the calendar year 2024, Graeme Kennedy, Past Creative Director and Director of Public Relations, received severance pay of $58,268. Mark Bessire, Executive Director, participates in a 457(f) plan. During the calendar year 2024, no contributions or disbursements from the plan were made.
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Related organizations on this return
Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
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501(c)(3) · To award grants · ME
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 12 December 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202523499349301322
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