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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

EIN 74-1109655Arts, Culture, Humanities Texas Large

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Excellence in collecting, exhibiting, preserving, conserving, and interpreting art for all people

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), founded in 1900, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles. The collection contains more than 69,000 artworks, which date from antiquity to the present. There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building; the Glassell School of Art; two house museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi; and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden. In concert with Steven Holl Architects, the Museum has recently embarked on a campus redevelopment which includes the new Glassell School of Art and a building for 20th- and 21st-century art; those structures will link to the existing gallery buildings and sculpture garden by Isamu Noguchi, establishing a 14-acre public campus in the heart of Houston's Museum District.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

88.15Overall score
out of 100

92.54Financial score
out of 100

85.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$129,992,121

Total expenses · USD$93,408,860

Program expenses

$76,315,038.62 recorded amount

81.7%

Fundraising expenses

$3,642,945.54 recorded amount

3.9%

Administrative expenses

$13,264,058.12 recorded amount

14.2%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.05 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Gary Tinterow
Recorded compensation: $908,715.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 0.97%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	85.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), founded in 1900, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles. The collection contains more than 69,000 artworks, which date from antiquity to the present. There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building; the Glassell School of Art; two house museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi; and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden. In concert with Steven Holl Architects, the Museum has recently embarked on a campus redevelopment which includes the new Glassell School of Art and a building for 20th- and 21st-century art; those structures will link to the existing gallery buildings and sculpture garden by Isamu Noguchi, establishing a 14-acre public campus in the heart of Houston's Museum District.
`ein` EIN	74-1109655
`tot_exp` Total expenses	93408860.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.142
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.05
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.039
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.8170000000000001
`fscore` Financial score	92.54
`leader` Recorded leader	Gary Tinterow
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	908715.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0097
`motto` Tagline	Excellence in collecting, exhibiting, preserving, conserving, and interpreting art for all people
`name` Charity name	The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
`tot_rev` Total revenue	129992121.0
`score` Overall score	88.15
`state` State code	TX
`subcategory` Subcategory	Museums
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	76315038.62
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	3642945.54
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	13264058.12

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 74-1109655
Source category: Arts, Culture, Humanities
Source subcategory: Museums
Recorded location: Texas (TX)
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.