- Revenue 2024
- $255,296,660
- Expenses 2024
- $138,189,140
Program services were 75.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A510
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 1001 BISSONNET 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
Mission
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON SERVES AS A WELCOMING AND INCLUSIVE PLACE FOR ALL PEOPLE, CONNECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF HOUSTON WITH DIVERSE HISTORIES OF ART SPANNING 6,000 YEARS AND SIX CONTINENTS. THROUGH OUR PERMANENT COLLECTIONS, SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS, LEARNING AND INTERPRETATION PROGRAMS, PUBLICATIONS, CONSERVATION AND SCHOLARLY RESEARCH, WE STRIVE TO INSPIRE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE BROADEST SPECTRUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT.
Activities or mission (Part I)
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON SERVES AS A WELCOMING AND INCLUSIVE PLACE FOR ALL PEOPLE, CONNECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF HOUSTON WITH DIVERSE HISTORIES OF ART SPANNING 6,000 YEARS AND SIX CONTINENTS. THROUGH OUR PERMANENT COLLECTIONS, SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS, LEARNING AND INTERPRETATION PROGRAMS, STUDIO INSTRUCTION, PUBLICATIONS, CONSERVATION AND SCHOLARLY RESEARCH, WE STRIVE TO INSPIRE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE BROADEST SPECTRUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT.
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EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS: PROVIDES INTERPRETIVE PROGRAMMING, ACCESS TO 2 ON-SITE ART LIBRARIES, PROVIDES RESOURCES AND TRAINING TO ART TEACHERS, AND ENGAGES THE COMMUNITY THROUGH LECTURES, CONCERTS, TOURS AND FESTIVALS. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR FURTHER DETAIL.
Expenses $12,331,623 · Revenue $3,818,997
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ACCESSIONS, CURATORIAL AND EXHIBIT PROGRAMS: INCLUDES ACQUISITION OF WORKS OF ART, RESEARCH INTO AND CARE OF THE ART COLLECTION, AND COORDINATION AND PRODUCTION OF ART EXHIBITIONS. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR FURTHER DETAIL.
Expenses $82,968,352 · Revenue $746,284
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GLASSELL SCHOOL OF ART: PROVIDES HANDS-ON ART EDUCATION TO PRE-SCHOOL THROUGH ADULT STUDENTS. APPROXIMATELY 7,800 STUDENTS TOOK CLASSES THIS YEAR. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR FURTHER DETAIL.
Expenses $6,567,581 · Grants $149,197 · Revenue $3,507,595
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MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES
Expenses $1,963,997 · Revenue $3,545,459
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
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MRS ANNE S DUNCAN
LIFE TRUSTEE, CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR JOE HUDSON
LIFE TRUSTEE, VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR FRANK J HEVRDEJS
LIFE TRUSTEE, TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR RW WORTHAM III
LIFE TRUSTEE, SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS CORNELIA LONG
LIFE TRUSTEE, CHAIRMAN EMERITUS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR RICHARD D KINDER
LIFE TRUSTEE, CHAIRMAN EMERITUS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MS ALICE C SIMKINS
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR ANNE S CHAO
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MS ANNE SCHLUMBERGER
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR BRAD BUCHER
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS CLARE ATTWELL GLASSELL
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS CYVIA G WOLFF
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MS FRANCI NEELY
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR ISAAC ARNOLD JR
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS JEANIE KILROY WILSON
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS LYNN WYATT
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS MARGARET ALKEK WILLIAMS
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS SARA SCHOLES MORGAN
LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR ALFRED C GLASSELL III
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS ALIYYA KOMBARGI STUDE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS ANN BOOKOUT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MRS BARBARA G GAMSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR BARRON F WALLACE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MS BETH ROBERTSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MS BETTIE CARTWRIGHT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $255,296,660
- Expenses
- $138,189,140
- Contributions
- $27,800,866
- Grants paid
- $149,197
-
2024
- Revenue
- $255,296,660
- Expenses
- $138,189,140
- Contributions
- $27,800,866
- Grants paid
- $149,197
-
2023
- Revenue
- $226,771,106
- Expenses
- $149,774,624
- Contributions
- $30,796,055
- Grants paid
- $158,440
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2022
- Revenue
- $147,981,263
- Expenses
- $121,303,403
- Contributions
- $33,751,753
- Grants paid
- $110,593
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
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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
- $154,547,084
- Expenses
- $123,558,617
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,084,635,040
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2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $163,632,909
- Expenses
- $135,166,379
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,157,086,703
-
2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $169,281,056
- Expenses
- $110,441,805
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,826,556,220
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $191,930,276
- Expenses
- $91,009,513
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,846,031,473
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $166,267,084
- Expenses
- $90,136,811
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,751,024,157
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
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FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
$1,824,961
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$1,571,795
2024 ARTS
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GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$1,009,287
2023 ARTS
-
$1,000,000
2022 General support
-
$978,759
2023 General support
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GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$962,160
2022 ARTS
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$860,555
2024 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
-
$755,710
2024 General support
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$540,474
2024 CULTURE & ARTS
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
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THE ENDOWMENT FOR THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
501(C)(3) · INACTIVE · TX · controlled entity
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HOUSTON ARTS COMBINED ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
501(C)(3) · SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION · TX
Declared as related by
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ENDOWMENT FOR THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
On its 2024 return
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HOUSTON ARTS COMBINED ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
On its 2024 return
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return
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C · BEVERAGE SERVICE · TX
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.