THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A510

Classification

1200

Street

258 MAIN ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• EXHIBITIONS:IN 2024, THE ALDRICH OPENED SIX NEW EXHIBITIONS, THREE ALDRICH PROJECTS, ONE MAIN STREET SCULPTURE PROJECT, AS WELL AS UNVEILED A NEWLY DESIGNED SCULPTURE GARDEN BY THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FIRM STIMSON.IN JANUARY, WE OPENED OUR FIRST ALDRICH PROJECT: AMANDA MARTINEZ | CANTA Y NO LLORES. IT FEATURED A SERIES OF WALL RELIEFS AND FREESTANDING SCULPTURES, ALL SITED IN THE MUSEUM'S LEIR ATRIUM. IT WAS ON VIEW JANUARY 10 TO MAY 5, 2024. ALSO, IN JANUARY, WE OPENED LOIE HOLLOWELL: SPACE BETWEEN, A SURVEY OF TEN YEARS, THE ARTIST'S FIRST MUSEUM SURVEY AND FIRST MUSEUM PRESENTATION ON THE EAST COAST. IT WAS ON VIEW JANUARY 21 TO AUGUST 11, 2024, AND THEN TRAVELED TO THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, WHERE IT OPENED ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2024, AND REMAINS ON VIEW THROUGH MARCH 9, 2025.IN APRIL, WE OPENED TWO FIRST SOLO MUSEUM DEBUTS: LAYO BRIGHT: DAWN AND DUSK AND ELIZABETH ENGLANDER: EMINEM BUDDHISM, VOLUME 3. BOTH SHOWS FEATURED NEW AND BORROWED WORKS AND WERE ON VIEW APRIL 7 TO OCTOBER 27, 2024.IN MAY, WE INSTALLED THE SECOND ALDRICH PROJECT: ESTHER RUIZ: UNCHARTED IN THE MUSEUM'S LEIR ATRIUM. IT DEBUTED NEW SCULPTURES AND A RECENT WORK AND WAS ON VIEW MAY 8 TO SEPTEMBER 2, 2024.IN AUGUST 2024, WE PRESENTED A SEQUENCE OF THREE SOLO PRESENTATIONS OF VIDEO ART BY ARTISTS EVA RICHARDSON MCCREA, WINNIE TRUONG, AND MAYA JEFFEREIS. THE ALDRICH VIDEO SERIES WAS ON VIEW FROM AUGUST 19 TO OCTOBER 20, 2024.IN SEPTEMBER, WE OPENED THE THIRD ALDRICH PROJECT: MILES HUSTON | OVERSHOOT. HUSTON PRESENTED WORKS FROM HIS OVERSHOOT SERIES IN THE LEIR ATRIUM. IT WAS ON VIEW SEPTEMBER 4, 2024 TO JANUARY 5, 2025. IN NOVEMBER, WE OPENED TWO MAJOR EXHIBITIONS: MARTHA DIAMOND: DEEP TIME AND A GARDEN OF PROMISE AND DISSENT AS WELL AS THE MAIN STREET SCULPTURE PROJECT, MOKO FUKUYAMA: MENAGERIE. MARTHA DIAMOND: DEEP TIME IS THE ARTIST'S FIRST MAJOR TRAVELING MUSEUM SURVEY. IT WAS CO-ORGANIZED WITH THE COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART AND IS ON VIEW NOVEMBER 17, 2024 TO MAY 18, 2025. A GARDEN OF PROMISE AND DISSENT INAUGURATES THE ALDRICH'S NEWLY RENOVATED CAMPUS AND SCULPTURE GARDEN. THIS INTERGENERATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION OF TWENTY-ONE ARTISTS SPANS THE MUSEUM'S FIRST FLOOR GALLERIES (ON VIEW: OCTOBER 31, 2024 TO MARCH 16, 2025) AND GROUNDS (ON VIEW: NOVEMBER 17, 2024 TO NOVEMBER 2025). MOKO FUKUYAMA: MENAGERIE DEBUTS A NEW OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SPECIALLY MADE FOR THE ALDRICH. IT IS ON VIEW NOVEMBER 17, 2024 TO OCTOBER 19, 2025.FIVE EXHIBITIONS AND THREE ALDRICH PROJECTS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS. FOR THE THREE ALDRICH PROJECTS, WE PUBLISHED 'ZINES. FOR LOIE HOLLOWELL: SPACE BETWEEN, A SURVEY OF TEN YEARS WE PUBLISHED THE ARTIST'S FIRST MONOGRAPH, A HARDCOVER BOOK, 96 PAGES, CO-PUBLISHED BY THE ALDRICH AND GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. FOR LAYO BRIGHT: DAWN AND DUSK AND ELIZABETH ENGLANDER: EMINEM BUDDHISM, VOLUME 3 WE PUBLISHED 34-PAGE, SOFT COVER BOOKS. FOR MARTHA DIAMOND: DEEP TIME WE PUBLISHED THE ARTIST'S FIRST HARDBOUND BOOK, 192 PAGES, AND CO-PUBLISHED WITH THE ALDRICH, COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, AND DELMONICO BOOKS. FOR A GARDEN OF PROMISE AND DISSENT WE WILL BE PUBLISHING A 64-PAGE CATALOGUE.

  Expenses $1,079,725 · Revenue $82,237

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $1,102,927 · Revenue $56,103

• MUSEUM OPERATIONS: EXHIBITION AND PUBLIC AND SCHOOL PROGRAMS REQUIRE A WELL-MAINTAINED, HIGH-FUNCTIONING FACILITY TO HOUSE THE EXHIBITIONS AND PROVIDE A PLACE FOR PROGRAMS. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, FUNDS ARE USED FOR MAINTENANCE, SECURITY, CAPITAL PROJECTS, UTILITIES, DEPRECIATION, AND OPERATIONS STAFFING. THE ALDRICH COMPLETED A MAJOR CAPITAL PROJECT IN 2024 - THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE CAMPUS AND SCULPTURE GARDEN. THE GREATLY IMPROVED OUTDOOR AREA PROVIDES ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR OUTDOOR EXHIBITIONS AND A BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY SPACE THAT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

  Expenses $716,573 · Revenue $43,859

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,539,362

  Expenses

  $3,471,864

  Contributions

  $3,461,615

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,600,935

  Expenses

  $3,305,284

  Contributions

  $3,172,682

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,291,044

  Expenses

  $3,109,991

  Contributions

  $1,350,217

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,086,414

  Expenses

  $2,822,991

  Assets (EOY)

  $44,231,344

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,025,870

  Expenses

  $2,735,496

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,328,011

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,010,170

  Expenses

  $3,208,935

  Assets (EOY)

  $37,887,112

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,062,241

  Expenses

  $3,059,015

  Assets (EOY)

  $34,651,818

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,714,330

  Expenses

  $3,013,714

  Assets (EOY)

  $38,710,834

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $441,600

  2023 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $133,000

  2022 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

• FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $92,350

  2024 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $68,300

  2024 · CULTURE & ARTS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $49,625

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $48,000

  2023 · RELIGION

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $35,000

  2022 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $28,750

  2022 · CULTURE & ARTS

• CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL

  $25,200

  2022 · CT CULTURAL FUND OPE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $20,025

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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