Public Charity

PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC

PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC is a Public Charity headquartered in SALEM, MA. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $26.4M revenue, $47.3M expenses, $844.7M total assets. 100 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $14.7M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 043157815 SALEM, MA Museums NTEE: A50 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$26.4M
Total Expenses$47.3M
Total Assets$844.7M
Grant Records100
Funding Total$14.7M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

PEM OFFERS THOUGHT-PROVOKING EXPERIENCES OF THE ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SCIENCES TO ACTIVATE UNDERSTANDING OF OUR SHARED HUMANITY AND TO EMPOWER IMAGINATION AND LEARNING THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION. WE STEWARD, BUILD, AND MAKE OUR COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE TO ENCOURAGE APPRECIATION OF THE INTERCONNECTED HISTORIES AND CREATIVITY OF PEOPLE IN OUR COMPLEX, ALWAYS CHANGING WORLD.

Officers & Directors

TRUSTEE 23
TRUSTEE Ana B Colmenero
TRUSTEE Andrew Heiskell
VICE PRESIDENT Austin Shapard
TREASURER Brenda Furlong
TRUSTEE Catherine Creighton

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Top Grant Purposes

ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
$7,857,354 8 grants
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
$3,244,203 9 grants
Unspecified
$1,020,999 8 grants
ARTS AND CULTURE
$596,540 7 grants
GENERAL SUPPORT
$301,794 7 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $26.4M $47.3M $844.7M
2024 $20.0M $46.3M $826.0M
2023 $40.1M $42.8M $799.4M
2022 $46.6M $45.1M $781.5M
2021 $58.0M $41.9M $834.9M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue declined from $58.0M to $26.4M (-54%), with total assets most recently reported at $844.7M.

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