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CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS

EIN 94-3045948 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$53,329,543
Expenses 2024
$57,481,779

Program services were 79.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A035
Classification
1200
Street
50 HAGIWARA TEA GARDEN DR

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 CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS (COFAM) IS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION FORMED IN 1987 RESPONSIBLE TO OPERATE THE DE YOUNG MUSEUM AND THE LEGION OF HONOR AND TO RAISE AND MAINTAIN FUNDS FOR THE MUSEUMS' SUPPORT. COFAM CONDUCTS THIS WORK ON BEHALF OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO (FAMSF), WHICH IS A CHARITABLE TRUST DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO (CITY). THE CITY OWNS THE LAND AND BUILDINGS IN WHICH THE MUSEUMS OPERATE, AND MOST OF THE COLLECTIONS, AND PROVIDES PARTIAL OPERATING SUPPORT THROUGH AN ANNUAL APPROPRIATION FOR THEIR CARE AND MAINTENANCE. COFAM ACCOMPLISHES THE MISSION OF FAMSF THROUGH EXHIBITION OF THE PERMANENT COLLECTIONS, SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS, SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS, EDUCATION PROGRAMS, CARE AND RESEARCH OF THE COLLECTIONS, AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE A RICH AND DIVERSIFIED EXPERIENCE OF ART AND CULTURE.

  • EXHIBITIONS - COFAM PRESENTED 20 EXHIBITIONS IN THE DE YOUNG AND LEGION OF HONOR DURING FYE JUNE 30, 2025. THE WIDE RANGE OF EXHIBITIONS REFLECTS THE ENCYCLOPEDIC NATURE OF THE MUSEUMS AND INCLUDED: TAMARA DE LEMPICKA, ISAAC JULIEN, PAUL MCCARTNEY PHOTOGRAPHS, MARY CASSATT AT WORK, AND WAYNE THIEBAUD. THE MUSEUMS WELCOMED 1,165,000 GUESTS IN FISCAL 2025, A DECREASE OF 3% OVER THE PRIOR YEAR.

    Expenses $23,999,713 · Revenue $8,351,452

  • COLLECTIONS RESEARCH, CARE AND CONSERVATION - COFAM'S STAFF INCLUDE CURATORS, REGISTRARS AND CONSERVATORS WHO HANDLE, RESEARCH AND CARE FOR THE CITY'S SIGNIFICANT PERMANENT COLLECTIONS HOUSED AND EXHIBITED AT THE DE YOUNG AND LEGION OF HONOR, AS WELL AS WORKS BORROWED FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS FOR SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS. CARE AND RESEARCH EXTEND TO A ROBUST PROGRAM OF NEW ACQUISITIONS.

    Expenses $12,926,024 · Revenue $421,243

  • EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS - COFAM OFFERS AN EXTENSIVE ARRAY OF EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS, INCLUDING FREE SATURDAYS, FREE SCHOOL GROUP VISITS AND PROGRAMMING, AND FAMILY PROGRAMS. WE PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS, ADVISORS AND ARTISTS TO CREATE HIGH QUALITY AND RELEVANT PROGRAMS. WE ALSO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL TRAINING, CLASSROOM MATERIALS AND CURRICULA, AND SUPPORT TO ART PROFESSIONALS, STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS, AND TEACHERS. COFAM CONTINUES TO INNOVATE ITS EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS TO ASSURE EVERYONE FEELS WELCOME AND COMFORTABLE AT THE MUSEUMS, AND ABLE TO ACCESS AND DIGEST INFORMATION IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. THE MUSEUMS OFFER FREE ACCESS TO SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS SEVERAL TIMES EACH YEAR ON ACCESS MONDAYS RESERVED FOR VISITORS WITH DISABILITIES. THESE PROGRAMS SERVE OVER 200,000 VISITORS EACH YEAR.

    Expenses $7,026,975 · Revenue $3,178,984

  • SUPPORT FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION. TRANSFER TO FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION.

    Expenses $1,965,777 · Grants $1,965,777

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.

  • JASON E MOMENT

    CHAIR (THRU 05/25), TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DAVID HOOKER SPENCER

    CHAIR (AS OF 06/25), TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JACK CALHOUN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARL F PASCARELLA

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID A FRAZE

    TREASURER (THRU 10/24), TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYNN ANDERSON POOLE

    TREASURER (AS OF 10/24), TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BAKARI AYINDE ADAMS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AIDA M ALVAREZ

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEXANDRIA J ASHDOWN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SHARON BELL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ZACHARY S BOGUE

    TRUSTEE (THRU 05/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROL N BONNIE

    TRUSTEE (THRU 05/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETTINA S BRYANT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID H S CHUNG

    TRUSTEE (THRU 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHERINE HARBIN CLAMMER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN DIEFENBACH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STANLEE GATTI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAX BOYER GLYNN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CYNTHIA FRY GUNN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LUCY YOUNG HAMILTON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HOLLY JOHNSON HARRIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM R HEARST III

    TRUSTEE (THRU 05/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • GEORGE HECKSHER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • REBECCA REEVE HENDERSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEBBIE JORGENSEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

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
    $53,329,543
    Expenses
    $57,481,779
    Contributions
    $41,683,139
    Grants paid
    $1,965,777
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $57,128,056
    Expenses
    $53,063,931
    Contributions
    $45,997,907
    Grants paid
    $1,323,227
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $54,270,467
    Expenses
    $58,086,414
    Contributions
    $38,151,005
    Grants paid
    $1,283,020

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $51,320,559
    Expenses
    $44,902,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,118,141

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,204,233
    Expenses
    $35,584,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,314,782

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $39,483,146
    Expenses
    $42,796,366
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,448,284

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $62,436,696
    Expenses
    $59,120,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,888,222

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $50,387,070
    Expenses
    $41,415,997
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,642,767

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,825,425
    Expenses
    $41,989,328
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,769,704

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $37,360,365
    Expenses
    $43,582,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,503,876

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,882,536
    Expenses
    $38,101,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,311,804

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,525,012
    Expenses
    $40,304,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,600,932

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $37,709,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,034,080

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Declared as related by

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $1,479 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $231 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $0 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $83,351 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $43,587 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $14,273 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $7,423 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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.