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PATRONVIEW · PUBLIC RECORD OF CULTURAL PHILANTHROPY

Search donor lists of American cultural institutions.

Easily explore 6,531,561 contributions to the world’s top museums and cultural organizations.

Donations and memberships are indexed from American museums, operas, libraries, zoos, and other non-profits. That data is processed into 2,274,753 unique donor records. Every listing cites the document it came from. How this is built.

2,274,753DONOR RECORDS
6,531,561LISTINGS INDEXED
7,346SOURCE DOCUMENTS
2000–2027REPORT YEARS
FOR DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

Advancement, development and prospect research teams license the full dataset. 2.3M donor records across 806 institutions, with a source citation on every line.

WHAT’S IN THE DATA REQUEST ACCESS
§01 · INSTITUTIONS

Every institution on this page

99 shown · ranked by donors listed ALL 806 →
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 36.4K LISTED · WASHINGTON Liberty Wildlife 27.5K LISTED · PHOENIX Metropolitan Museum of Art 20.6K LISTED · NEW YORK Fordham Preparatory School 19.2K LISTED · NEW YORK Museum of Modern Art 18.5K LISTED · NEW YORK New York Public Library 17.7K LISTED · NEW YORK Smithsonian Institution 16.4K LISTED · WASHINGTON Field Museum 15.8K LISTED · CHICAGO Indianapolis Zoo 15.5K LISTED · INDIANAPOLIS Metropolitan Opera 15.3K LISTED · NEW YORK Pacific Northwest Ballet 14.9K LISTED · SEATTLE Seattle Public Library Foundation 14.2K LISTED · SEATTLE Art Institute of Chicago 12.9K LISTED · CHICAGO God's Love We Deliver 12.7K LISTED · NEW YORK New York Philharmonic 12.7K LISTED · NEW YORK Piedmont Healthcare Foundation 12.6K LISTED · ATLANTA National Gallery of Art 12.6K LISTED · WASHINGTON Dallas Museum of Art 12.2K LISTED · DALLAS-FORT WORTH The Cleveland Museum of Art 12K LISTED · CLEVELAND Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago 11.9K LISTED · CHICAGO Denver Art Museum 11.6K LISTED · DENVER Museum of Fine Arts Boston 11.5K LISTED · BOSTON Milwaukee Art Museum 11.3K LISTED · MILWAUKEE Alive Hospice 11.2K LISTED · NASHVILLE Philadelphia Museum of Art 11.2K LISTED · PHILADELPHIA Zoo New England 11.2K LISTED · BOSTON Big Sister Association of Greater Boston 11.1K LISTED · BOSTON Catholic Charities of New York 10.9K LISTED · NEW YORK Lincoln Park Zoo 10.8K LISTED · CHICAGO Hermann Park Conservancy 10.3K LISTED · HOUSTON Tipping Point Community 9.7K LISTED · SAN FRANCISCO Oregon Community Foundation 9.4K LISTED · PORTLAND Amon Carter Museum of American Art 9.3K LISTED · DALLAS-FORT WORTH Barnes Foundation 9.2K LISTED · PHILADELPHIA Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center 9K LISTED · SEATTLE The Frick Collection 8.8K LISTED · NEW YORK Frye Art Museum 8.7K LISTED · SEATTLE The San Diego LGBT Community Center 8.6K LISTED · SAN DIEGO Maryland Zoo 8.6K LISTED · BALTIMORE Cleveland Museum of Natural History 8.3K LISTED · CLEVELAND The Walters Art Museum 8.3K LISTED · BALTIMORE National WWII Museum 8.2K LISTED · NEW ORLEANS San Francisco Botanical Garden 8.2K LISTED · SAN FRANCISCO New York Landmarks Conservancy 8K LISTED · NEW YORK Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra 8K LISTED · DALLAS-FORT WORTH Benaroya Hall 7.8K LISTED · SEATTLE Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture 7.8K LISTED · SEATTLE Carnegie Hall 7.6K LISTED · NEW YORK Denver Botanic Gardens 7.5K LISTED · DENVER Houston Symphony 7.3K LISTED · HOUSTON ArtsFund 7.2K LISTED · SEATTLE Audubon Zoo 7.1K LISTED · NEW ORLEANS City Harvest 7K LISTED · NEW YORK Morgan Library and Museum 7K LISTED · NEW YORK Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 6.9K LISTED · CHICAGO Cleveland Institute of Art 6.9K LISTED · CLEVELAND New York Cares 6.8K LISTED · NEW YORK Seton Hall University School of Law 6.6K LISTED · NEWARK Oregon Historical Society 6.6K LISTED · PORTLAND Arizona Humane Society 6.6K LISTED · PHOENIX YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee 6.5K LISTED · NASHVILLE Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 6.3K LISTED · NEW YORK Houston Parks Board 6.3K LISTED · HOUSTON San Diego Natural History Museum 6.1K LISTED · SAN DIEGO American Museum of Natural History 6K LISTED · NEW YORK Asia Society 6K LISTED · NEW YORK Self Enhancement Inc. 5.9K LISTED · PORTLAND Frank Lloyd Wright Trust 5.9K LISTED · CHICAGO Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City 5.7K LISTED · NEW YORK Intrepid Museum 5.6K LISTED · NEW YORK Museum of Fine Arts in Houston 5.5K LISTED · HOUSTON YMCA of Metropolitan Washington DC 5.4K LISTED · WASHINGTON Friends & Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library 5.3K LISTED · SAN FRANCISCO Newark Museum of Art 5.2K LISTED · NEWARK Chicago Architecture Center 5.2K LISTED · CHICAGO Museum of Science 5.1K LISTED · BOSTON Eiteljorg Museum 5.1K LISTED · INDIANAPOLIS Atlanta Botanical Garden 4.4K LISTED · ATLANTA Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum 4.3K LISTED · TUCSON Allied Arts Oklahoma City 3.7K LISTED · OKLAHOMA CITY Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee 3.6K LISTED · MILWAUKEE Bullock Texas State History Museum 2.9K LISTED · AUSTIN Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma 2.4K LISTED · OKLAHOMA CITY Arizona Historical Society 2.2K LISTED · TUCSON Neill-Cochran House Museum 2K LISTED · AUSTIN Happy Hollow Park & Zoo 1.4K LISTED · SAN JOSE San Jose Museum of Art 742 LISTED · SAN JOSE National WWI Museum and Memorial Hamilton College Hosparus Health Chicago Botanic Garden Columbia Museum of Art Florence Griswold Museum Virginia Beach SPCA Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities Yale School of Management Oakland Zoo Boise Art Museum Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation
§02 · TOP DONORS

Top donors, museum by museum

ranked by times listed DONOR PROFILES →
§03 · BOARDS & TRUSTEES

Who sits on the board

158,229 trustees · IRS Form 990 ALL 517 →

Trustee rosters come from each institution’s Form 990, which is public by law. 517 institutions, 158,229 named board members.

§04 · LEADERBOARDS

The most-listed donors

individuals and couples only TOP MUSEUM DONORS →
§05 · NOTABLE

Names you will know

2,632 donors have a Wikipedia page ALL PATRONS →
§06 · MOST SEARCHED

Looked up this month

most-searched profiles · times listed SEARCH BY NAME →

These are some of the names people searched for on Google:

§07 · WHO USES PATRONVIEW

Who Uses PatronView

three working uses of the record LICENSE THE DATA →

Advancement & development

01

University advancement and nonprofit development teams check a prospect list against published giving records: who already gives to cultural institutions, at what level, and how consistently over how many years. Giving history is the strongest available public signal of capacity and affinity.

Journalism & research

02

Reporters and academics trace philanthropy at a named institution across two decades, with every figure citable back to the annual report it was printed in. Provenance is the point.

Institutional benchmarking

03

Museums and cultural organizations compare their own donor base against peer institutions: how many named donors, at which levels, and who overlaps between two boards.

§08 · FUNDS & PROGRAMS

Largest giving programs

75,944 funds · ranked by donors listed BROWSE INSTITUTIONS →
§09 · CITY LISTING

City listing

25 metro hubs · donors listed ALL INSTITUTIONS →
§10 · NEWS & UPDATES

News & updates

what changed in the database ALL NEWS →
§11 · LICENSING

Licensing and bulk access

source-cited · bulk delivery

License the full dataset.

The site shows what’s public. Teams that need the whole record — every listing, every institution, every year, with source citations — license it directly.

Send us a prospect or alumni list and we’ll tell you which of those names appear in published donor rolls, where, at what level, and in which years.

Other export formats and API or MCP access is available by request, including integration to Salesforce and other CRMs. Delivery is built to the engagement.

Tell us what you’re trying to answer and we’ll tell you whether the data supports it. If it doesn’t, we’ll say so.

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WHAT’S IN THE DATA
COVERAGE
Institutions 806
Donor records 2,274,753
— individuals 669,510
— couples 347,994
Contribution listings 6,531,561
Giving programs (funds) 75,944
Board members (Form 990) 158,229
Source documents held 7,346
Report years 2000–2027
Last updated NOV 8, 2026
FIELDS PER LISTING
  • donor_name — as printed
  • donor_type — individual · couple
  • institution — name, city, state
  • metro_area — metro of the listing institution
  • fund — program, up to 3 levels
  • giving_level — band as published, or direct amount where available
  • report_year
  • source_document — PDF + page
  • board_role — where applicable
ROLLED UP PER DONOR
  • times_listed — listings across all institutions
  • institutions_listed — how many name them
  • value_tracked — published levels summed, not a gift total
  • top_level — highest band ever published
  • first_year · last_year — span of listings
  • wikipedia_url — where a public page exists
  • profile_url — permanent PatronView link

Figures verified against the production database, 8 November 2026.

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