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Bowers Museum

EIN 33-0106161Arts, Culture, Humanities California Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Enriching lives through the world's finest arts and cultures

Founded in 1936 by the City of Santa Ana through a bequest from Charles and Ada Bowers, the Bowers Museum is one of California's finest and Orange County's largest museums. The mission of the Bowers Museum is to enrich lives through the world's finest arts and cultures; to achieve its mission, the Bowers offers exhibitions, lectures, art classes, travel programs, children's art education programs, and other special community programs. The museum's permanent collection includes more than 130,000 works of art. These works were donated from 1935 to the present and represent many regions and cultures of the world. The museum's largest collections are in the areas of Native American art, Pre-Columbian art, Asian art, art of the Pacific, art of Africa and Orange County history.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

82.15Overall score
out of 100

82.31Financial score
out of 100

82.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$6,207,872

Total expenses · USD$5,365,378

Program expenses

$3,841,610.65 recorded amount

71.6%

Fundraising expenses

$364,845.70 recorded amount

6.8%

Administrative expenses

$1,148,190.89 recorded amount

21.4%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.11 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Peter Keller
Recorded compensation: $388,385.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 7.23%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Bowers Museum
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	82.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	Founded in 1936 by the City of Santa Ana through a bequest from Charles and Ada Bowers, the Bowers Museum is one of California's finest and Orange County's largest museums. The mission of the Bowers Museum is to enrich lives through the world's finest arts and cultures; to achieve its mission, the Bowers offers exhibitions, lectures, art classes, travel programs, children's art education programs, and other special community programs. The museum's permanent collection includes more than 130,000 works of art. These works were donated from 1935 to the present and represent many regions and cultures of the world. The museum's largest collections are in the areas of Native American art, Pre-Columbian art, Asian art, art of the Pacific, art of Africa and Orange County history.
`ein` EIN	33-0106161
`tot_exp` Total expenses	5365378.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.214
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.11
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.068
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.716
`fscore` Financial score	82.31
`leader` Recorded leader	Peter Keller
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	388385.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0723
`motto` Tagline	Enriching lives through the world's finest arts and cultures
`name` Charity name	Bowers Museum
`tot_rev` Total revenue	6207872.0
`score` Overall score	82.15
`state` State code	CA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Museums
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	3841610.648
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	364845.704
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	1148190.892

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 33-0106161
Source category: Arts, Culture, Humanities
Source subcategory: Museums
Recorded location: California (CA)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.