Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation
ActiveArts, Culture & Humanities
About Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation
Support the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in creating an inclusive cultural space for Central Arkansas through exhibitions, collection stewardship, education, and community programming.
Focus Areas
visual artsperforming artsmuseum collectionsarts educationcommunity arts programming
Who They Fund
the supported entity / single granteeunspecified stakeholders served by that entity
Funding Style
general operating supportsingle-organization supportunspecified funding strategy
Topics
About Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation’s recent grant record is dominated by support for a single institution: the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock. Across the latest filings, the foundation made multiple large grants to that museum, including a $38,625,548 award in 2023 and a $20,869,185 award in 2024, alongside a $6,857,929 grant in 2025. That pattern shows a funder built around sustained support for one supported entity rather than a broad portfolio of unrelated recipients. The foundation’s stated mission is to support the museum in creating an inclusive cultural space for Central Arkansas through exhibitions, collection stewardship, education, and community programming. The grant list also shows a smaller local award to Blossomoutreach22 Inc. in Little Rock, which indicates some additional support within the same city. With annual grants of $92,165,768 and total assets of $68,443,256, the foundation operates at a large scale relative to its narrow geographic reach. Its giving is entirely in Arkansas and entirely to U.S. recipients.
What Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Funds
The clearest theme in the foundation’s grants is museum support. It gave $38,625,548 to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts for the museum’s mission, then followed with another $20,869,185 grant in 2024 for the same purpose. Those awards align with the foundation’s focus on exhibitions, collection stewardship, education, and community programming. A second pattern appears in support for community arts activity in Little Rock. In 2023, the foundation granted $1,489,763 to Blossomoutreach22 Inc. for its mission, and it added a $649,304 award in 2024. The recipient names and repeated funding suggest a local emphasis rather than a dispersed statewide or national portfolio. The foundation also connects visual and performing arts with public-facing museum programming, reflecting a single-institution model centered on cultural access in Central Arkansas.
How Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Gives
The grant-size profile is highly skewed toward very large awards: p25 is $1,489,763, median grant size is $20,869,185, and p75 is $23,674,039. That pattern reflects a foundation making a small number of substantial grants rather than many small ones. The recent record also shows repeat support to the same recipients across years, especially the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and Blossomoutreach22 Inc. The foundation appears to function as a single-organization support vehicle tied to the museum, and it does not fund individuals. The data also indicates no program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$6.9M
Total Assets
$68.4M
Total Revenue
$8.2M
Total Expenses
$9.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $1.5M and $23.7M, with a median of $20.9M.
25th Percentile
$1.5M
Median
$20.9M
75th Percentile
$23.7M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
DR VICTORIA RAMIREZ
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