The Billionaire Endowment & Philanthropy Index
Auditing Institutions Holding Over $500M in Tax-Exempt Endowment Assets
An in-depth econometric audit of America’s most heavily endowed cultural institutions, analyzing operating coverage ratios, gate fee dependence, and per-visitor philanthropic subsidies.
The Getty Center
Free Admission, Richard Meier Architecture & European Masterpieces
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5,000 Years of Art and Human Culture on Fifth Avenue
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Wright Brothers Flyer to Apollo Lunar Module — Free Civic Science
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Starry Night, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, and Modern Masterworks in Midtown
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Endowed for the Free Benefit of All the People Forever
The Art Institute of Chicago
Home of American Gothic, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, and Renzo Piano Modern Wing
National Gallery of Art
Only Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas & Free Civic Admission
American Museum of Natural History
Titanosaur, Hayden Planetarium, and the Gilder Center for Science
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Ancient Egyptian Treasures, Japanese Woodblocks & American Impressionism
New York Botanical Garden
250-Acre Living Museum, Enid A. Haupt Victorian Glasshouse & Old-Growth Forest
The Field Museum of Natural History
SUE the T. rex, Ancient Egypt, and 40 Million Natural History Specimens
California Academy of Sciences
Aquarium, Planetarium, Rainforest, and Living Roof Under One Living Dome