Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Feb 1923.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
74 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
27 people listed on the 990; $2.4M paid to officers and key staff.
Thomas Collins’s $630K as Executive Director & President is at the 87th percentile of top reported officer pay among 749 $10–100M arts & culture nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Collins | $630,263 | $565,836 | $528,817 | $501,102 | $396,365 |
| Nina Diefenbach | $339,420 | $342,728 | $342,830 | $332,348 | $312,425 |
| William Cary | $327,630 | $275,830 | — | — | — |
| Sara Geelan | $290,171 | $284,703 | $279,731 | $256,017 | $236,957 |
| Nancy Ireson PHD | $238,372 | $234,169 | — | — | — |
| Margaret B Zminda | — | — | $234,456 | $215,226 | $187,488 |
| Maryanne Murphy | $231,839 | $88,866 | — | — | — |
| Sheronda Whitaker | — | $226,755 | $184,802 | $160,435 | $141,137 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Teaches visual literacy and shares art, ideas, and histories through inclusive cultural experiences.
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The foundation's permanent collection gallery in philadelphia welcomed more than 71,000 guests during the six and a half months the barnes was open to the public. The COVID-19 health crisis required the building to be closed for 25 weeks.
The foundation engages in an active program of collection care and conservation. The barnes art collection comprises over 8,000 works of fine and decorative arts, including paintings, frames, works on paper, furniture and decorative metalwork. The foundation's philadelphia facility includes a state-of-the-art painting conservation lab.
The barnes-de mazia education program builds on DR. Albert barnes's groundbreaking approach to teaching visual literacy and the curriculum developed by DR. Barnes, violette de mazia, and john dewey, which emphasizes the formal analysis of art and reflects progressive education philosophies of the 1920s.
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
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By the numbers
The FY2020 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY20 | End FY20 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $951K | $1.2M |
| InvestmentsLn 11–13 | $93.1M | $108.5M |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $100.4M | $95.7M |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $215.0M | $223.5M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $2.8M | $1.6M |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $212.2M | $222.0M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $1.5M | $758K | $459K | $304K |
| Pay of disqualified personsLn 6 | $7.1M | $4.6M | $1.1M | $1.5M |
| Pension plan contributionsLn 8 | $213K | $131K | $45K | $37K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $1.1M | $661K | $225K | $187K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $648K | $399K | $136K | $113K |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $36K | $1K | $35K | |
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $108K | $108K | ||
| Professional fundraising feesLn 11e | $277K | $277K | ||
| Investment management feesLn 11f | $367K | $367K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $1.2M | $1.1M | $94K | $29K |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $365K | $355K | $6K | $4K |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $122K | $73K | $39K | $11K |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $453K | $349K | $50K | $54K |
| RoyaltiesLn 15 | $18K | $18K | ||
| OccupancyLn 16 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $73K | $1K |
| TravelLn 17 | $40K | $37K | $2K | $1K |
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $27K | $17K | $10K | $816 |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $5.3M | $5.1M | $197K | $2K |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $531K | $466K | $31K | $34K |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $526K | $263K | $25K | $238K |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $467K | $359K | $23K | $84K |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $22.5M | $16.7M | $3.0M | $2.9M |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest | $33.7M | $30.1M | $3.7M | $245.0M | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 | $26.7M | $32.0M | −$5.4M | $233.2M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | Not on file | ||||
| FY2022 | $36.1M | $31.1M | $5.0M | $223.5M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $34.8M | $25.6M | $9.2M | $238.7M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 Viewing | $21.2M | $22.5M | −$1.3M | $222.0M | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2020 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $21,249,120 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 15 of 15 board members independent, no flags
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $21,249,120 across 11 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $22,540,936 across 21 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $223,515,679 assets, 16 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $221,958,104 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2020 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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