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Seattle Art Museum

EIN 91-0640788Arts, Culture, Humanities Washington Large

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Connecting art to life

Seattle Art Museum (SAM) provides a welcoming place for people to connect with art and to consider its relationship to their lives. SAM is one museum in three locations: Seattle Art Museum downtown, Seattle Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park, and the Olympic Sculpture Park. The Museum collects and exhibits objects from across time and across cultures, exploring the dynamic connections between past and present. The collections of the Seattle Art Museum number approximately 23,000 objects. In May 2007, the Museum celebrated the grand reopening of SAM Downtown, allowing the Museum to accommodate its growing collections, exhibition programs and audiences with 300,000 square feet of new gallery and public space adjacent to the museum's existing 150,000 square feet.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

87.24Overall score
out of 100

83.84Financial score
out of 100

92.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$38,169,891

Total expenses · USD$38,076,158

Program expenses

$24,825,655.02 recorded amount

65.2%

Fundraising expenses

$2,741,483.38 recorded amount

7.2%

Administrative expenses

$10,432,867.29 recorded amount

27.4%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.08 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Kimerly Rorschach
Recorded compensation: $516,956.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.35%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Seattle Art Museum
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	92.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	Seattle Art Museum (SAM) provides a welcoming place for people to connect with art and to consider its relationship to their lives. SAM is one museum in three locations: Seattle Art Museum downtown, Seattle Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park, and the Olympic Sculpture Park. The Museum collects and exhibits objects from across time and across cultures, exploring the dynamic connections between past and present. The collections of the Seattle Art Museum number approximately 23,000 objects. In May 2007, the Museum celebrated the grand reopening of SAM Downtown, allowing the Museum to accommodate its growing collections, exhibition programs and audiences with 300,000 square feet of new gallery and public space adjacent to the museum's existing 150,000 square feet.
`ein` EIN	91-0640788
`tot_exp` Total expenses	38076158.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.27399999999999997
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.08
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.07200000000000001
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.652
`fscore` Financial score	83.84
`leader` Recorded leader	Kimerly Rorschach
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	516956.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.013500000000000002
`motto` Tagline	Connecting art to life
`name` Charity name	Seattle Art Museum
`tot_rev` Total revenue	38169891.0
`score` Overall score	87.24
`state` State code	WA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Museums
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	24825655.016000003
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	2741483.376
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	10432867.292

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 91-0640788
Source category: Arts, Culture, Humanities
Source subcategory: Museums
Recorded location: Washington (WA)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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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.