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. 104 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $14.8M, 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 Records104
Funding Total$14.8M
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.

Where $100 goes at Peabody Essex Museum Inc

How Peabody Essex Museum Inc divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 8 years.

$79 Programs the work itself
$14 Management running the organization
$7 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $79 for programs

$38
Curatorial and collections
48% of program spending
$33
Exhibitions and publications
42% of program spending · Reported in the filing: 193,418 visitors; 49,751 visitors
$8
Learning & community engagement
10% of program spending · Reported in the filing: 12 students; 47,100 guests; 201 programs
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

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

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

Arts & Culture
$8,705,244 34 grants
General Support
$4,750,364 46 grants
Education
$286,837 14 grants
Health & Medicine
$12,500 1 grant
Unspecified
$1,020,999 8 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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