Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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Calendar year
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(a) 2020 | (b) 2021 | (c) 2022 | (d) 2023 | (e) 2024 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 98,780,348 | 94,737,177 | 108,016,214 | 122,024,717 | 96,118,352 | 519,676,808 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf .... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 98,780,348 | 94,737,177 | 108,016,214 | 122,024,717 | 96,118,352 | 519,676,808 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f) .. | 108,037,009 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 411,639,799 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in)
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(a) 2020 | (b) 2021 | (c) 2022 | (d) 2023 | (e) 2024 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 98,780,348 | 94,737,177 | 108,016,214 | 122,024,717 | 96,118,352 | 519,676,808 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 19,608,122 | 20,488,548 | 23,546,519 | 37,511,800 | 31,189,643 | 132,344,632 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 247,566 | 1,741,496 | 1,785,847 | 1,704,322 | 1,713,904 | 7,193,135 |
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 668,014,303 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal
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(a) 2020 | (b) 2021 | (c) 2022 | (d) 2023 | (e) 2024 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
Calendar year
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(a) 2020 | (b) 2021 | (c) 2022 | (d) 2023 | (e) 2024 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included on line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 0.015 of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by 0.035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | 1 | |
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
2 | |
| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | 3 | |
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | 4 | |
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required - provide details in Part VI) | 5 | |
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | 6 | |
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | 7 | |
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8
Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2024 from Section C, line 6 | 9 | |
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | 10 | |
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2024 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2024 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2024 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2024 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI).
See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2024: | ||||
| a From 2019....... | ||||
| b From 2020....... | ||||
| c From 2021....... | ||||
| d From 2022....... | ||||
| e From 2023....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2024 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2019 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from line 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2024 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2024 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from line 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2024, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2024. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2025. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2020..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2021..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2022..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2023..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2024..... | ||||
| Facts And Circumstances Test |
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| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Schedule A, Part II, Line 10, Explanation of Other Income: | Other Income - 2020 Amount: $ 247,566. 2021 Amount: $ 1,741,496. 2022 Amount: $ 1,785,847. 2023 Amount: $ 1,704,322. 2024 Amount: $ 1,713,904. |
| Schedule A, Part II, Line 10: | General Explanation - Other income includes gross income from fundraising, ancillary revenue from the restaurant operations, and tax refunds received. |
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| Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission: | to the art of our time. The Museum aspires to be a catalyst for experimentation, learning, and creativity, a gathering place for all, and a home for artists and their ideas. As part of this mission, the Museum of Modern Art establishes, preserves, and documents a permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, presents exhibitions and educational programs, sustains a library, archives, and conservation laboratory and supports scholarship and publications. The Form 990 is one of several reports the Museum makes available each year. The Museum encourages it to be read with the audited financial statements, which provide additional financial context. These documents as well as previous years reports can be found on moma.org. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 1: | The Museum's mission is to connect people from around the world to the art of our time. The Museum aspires to be a catalyst for experimentation, learning, and creativity, a gathering place for all, and a home for artists and their ideas. In pursuit of this goal, the Museum has collected approximately 200,000 works of art, including works of painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, illustrated books, photography, film, media, performance art, architecture, and industrial and graphic design. As a central part of its mission, the Museum also operates a scholarly publishing program, conducts an extensive learning and engagement program, and maintains a major library, archives, and conservation laboratory that are recognized as international centers of research. Its exhibitions are circulated nationally and internationally. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a: | After over three years of construction, including a planned four-month temporary closure of the Museum to the public in order to complete construction and art re-installation, an expanded new MoMA opened on October 21, 2019, with a reimagined presentation of modern and contemporary art, catalyzed by a 30% increase in overall gallery space and an improved quality of visitor experience through reconceived entrances, circulation, and amenities, concurrent with an increase in public space, including an expanded below-grade store and a new restaurant with terrace on the sixth floor. The expansion, developed by MoMA with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in collaboration with Gensler, added more than 40,000 square feet of gallery spaces and enables the Museum to exhibit significantly more art in new and interdisciplinary ways. In FY 2025, visitors to MoMA had access to or engaged with interpretative offerings including labels, audio content (offered in nine languages), activity packets, and self-guided tour materials. During this time, the Museum continued to build back to pre-pandemic programming levels, including gallery tours, interactive spaces, workshops, visual description tours for the blind and partially sighted, and resources for other individuals with special needs, that had been successfully pivoted to virtual offerings in the previous fiscal year. Additionally, through its partnership with Adobe, nearly 25,000 students, teachers, and chaperones participated in the Guided School Tour Program for K-12 Students, representing a 36% increase in program attendance from FY 2024. |
| Form 990, Part IV, Line 30: | Gifts of artwork are considered by individual item. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 4: In light of discussions regarding the non-voting status of Life Trustees, certain of whom remain very active in the Museum's affairs and leadership, at the May 29, 2018 annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, a resolution was proposed and approved allowing certain changes to the bylaws such that an Elective Trustee who has reached 75 years of age or older at the expiration of his or her current term may be elected either to continue to serve as an Elective Trustee, or to serve as a Life Trustee; in certain appropriate circumstances the trustee may also rotate off the Board. In view of the fact that with this amendment, an expanded panel of Elective Trustees will remain on the board past their 75th birthdays, a change to increase the maximum number of Elective Trustees from 50 to 70 was also proposed and approved by the Board. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | The Museum's form 990 is prepared by Grant Thornton Advisors in coordination with the Museum's controller's office with input from many museum departments. It is then reviewed by Museum senior staff including the Director, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, and the General Counsel. The 990 is then presented to the Museum's Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees for review and approval. A copy of the 990 is provided to each member for the Board of Trustees electronically or in printed copy prior to filing the return. The 990 is available to the public through the Museum's website www.moma.org. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | On an annual basis, the Museum distributes its code of conduct to all Trustees and designated employees and requires that conflict of interest questionnaires be completed and returned for initial review by the office of the General Counsel and the Director of Human Resources respectively. Amongst other things, the conflict of interest questionnaire requires the responder: confirm that he or she has read and understands the code of conduct, agree to abide by it, identify whether he or she or a family member has any relationship with the Museum that may represent a conflict of interest as defined by the code and report any knowledge of a transaction which should be reported under the code, etc. When potential employee conflicts of interest are reported or identified, when necessary, an investigation is conducted to determine the facts and circumstances and recommendation of action, if warranted. Such action may include, but is not limited to, prohibiting the individual from participating in deliberations and decisions regarding the transaction in question, or taking disciplinary action, which in appropriate circumstances may include suspension or termination. The employee's supervisor is notified of an employee with identified conflicts and the action to be taken, if any. When potential Trustee conflicts of interest are reported or identified, the General Counsel's office makes a report to a committee of the Board of Trustees with a recommendation for action, if warranted, including but not limited to disclose to the Board of Trustees, prohibiting the Trustee from participating in and/or voting on the transaction in question, resignation from the Board of Trustees, etc. The code of conduct further provides that the committee make a recommendation to the Chairman of the Board for decision by the Board. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | The process for determining the compensation for the museum director and certain key employees includes reviews and approval by the Board of Trustees' compensation subcommittee of the executive committee (the "committee") of the governing body, consisting of independent trustees, and not including the director or other staff members. In making its determination, the committee obtains and reviews comparability data with respect to compensation levels paid for comparable job positions obtained through the assistance of an expert compensation consultant which, in appropriate instances, includes survey data regarding compensation levels paid by similarly situated organizations for comparable employment positions, form 990 data from other leading Museums and cultural and education institutions, as well as for profit institutions which may be interested in recruiting the Museum staff. The determination, deliberation and decisions made by the committee are contemporaneously substantiated and documented in minutes of the meeting which include the committee members present and participation, the compensation terms approved, the data relied upon and how it was obtained. The committee periodically reviews resolutions and signs-off as they are presented to them. The last resolution was signed on December 10, 2025. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | The Museum's governing documents are available for review. Conflict of interest policy, code of conduct policy, prior years audited financial statements and prior years 990 are available to the public through the Museum's website https://www.moma.org/about/documents-policies. |
| Form 990, Part VII: | The hours disclosed for officers, key employees and highly compensated individuals is 50 hours which represents a full-time designated employee. For those listed on Part VII the hours worked, in reality, are significantly more than the standard full-time employee norm. |
| Form 990, Part XI, line 9: | The other changes in net assets are related to Defined Benefit Plan changes other than net periodic benefit costs partially offset by organizations that file a separate return. 3,714,437. |
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