Who funds Smithsonian Institute
943 institutional funders have given since 2022, 829 of them directly, through tax year 2025.
Its two largest direct donors
- Lilly Endowment Inc$76.6M2022–2025
- Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation$21.3M2022–2024
A free account names its 5 largest direct donors, and the funders behind them.
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Latest return: tax year 2024, Form 990.
| Tax year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9B | $1.7B | $6.5B |
| 2023 | $2.0B | $1.7B | $6.1B |
| 2022 | $1.9B | $1.6B | $5.7B |
| 2021 | $1.9B | $1.5B | $5.4B |
| 2020 | $1.8B | $1.4B | $5.5B |
Contributions and grants received in 2024: $1.5B.
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Built from the organization’s public IRS Form 990 filings and the gifts other organizations report on theirs, processed by Aprize. Institutional donors only: individual donors are never shown. Data as of 1 November 2026.
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