Nonprofit · EIN 74-6045327
MENIL FOUNDATION INC
Tax-exempt · HOUSTON, TX 77006
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | 990 | $37,261,644 | $31,282,405 | $5,979,239 | $527,697,861 | $2,229,947 | $525,467,914 |
| June 30, 2024 | 990 | $36,441,222 | $27,201,958 | $9,239,264 | $506,970,862 | $2,582,489 | $504,388,373 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $12,370,839
- Membership dues
- $1,072,298
- Program service revenue
- $3,044,838
- Investment income
- $21,892,455
- Net gain from sales of assets
- $12,173,832
- Net income from fundraising events
- -$66,327
- Net income from sales of inventory
- $19,839
- Other revenue
- -$46,488
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $50,000
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $682,287
- Other salaries and wages
- $9,324,139
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $12,723,084
- Professional fundraising fees
- $11,625
- Legal fees
- $68,529
- Accounting fees
- $106,065
- Occupancy
- $2,835,991
- Travel
- $206,330
- Depreciation
- $4,005,005
- Program services (functional)
- $21,279,953
- Management and general (functional)
- $8,640,634
- Fundraising (functional)
- $1,361,818
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $506,970,862
- Total assets, end of year
- $527,697,861
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $2,229,947
- Net assets, end of year
- $525,467,914
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $99,938,438
- Publicly traded securities
- $253,599,877
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $228,296,352
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $297,171,562
- Gross unrelated business income
- $727,586
- Gross receipts
- $175,434,571
- Employees
- 167
- Volunteers
- 24
- Year formed
- 1954
- State of legal domicile
- TX
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca Rabinow | Director Officer | 40 | $583,140 | $42,116 |
| Matthew Assiff | CFO Officer | 38 | $263,000 | $0 |
| Edouard Kopp | Chief Curator, MDI Highest-paid employee | 35 | $189,660 | $33,653 |
| Suzanne Maloch | Director of Human Resource Highest-paid employee | 35 | $189,193 | $33,630 |
| Judy Waters | Director of Advancement Highest-paid employee | 35 | $195,143 | $18,229 |
| Wesley Haines | Director of Facilities Highest-paid employee | 35 | $178,841 | $28,597 |
| Corina Rogge | Director of Conservation Highest-paid employee | 35 | $157,616 | $16,353 |
| Louisa Stude Sarofim | Chair Emerita Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Janet M Hobby | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Doug L Lawing | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Leslie Elkins Sasser | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| James W Stewart Jr | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Eddie R Allen III | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Nancy Abendshein | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Suzanne Deal Booth | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
16 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilda Curran | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Cheryl Finley | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Aziz Friedrich | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Glassman | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Barbara Goot-Gamson | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Cecily Horton | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| George Kelly | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dillon Kyle | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Alison Leland | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Isabel Lummis | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Francois de Menil | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Clemence Molin | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Franci Neely | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Anaeze Offodile | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| David Ruiz | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Mark Wawro | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2024: 36 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca Rabinow | Director Officer | 40 | $542,774 | $39,940 |
| Ileana Del Toro | CFO Officer | 38 | $201,825 | $33,621 |
| Edouard Kopp | Chief Curator, MDI Highest-paid employee | 35 | $181,925 | $32,612 |
| Suzanne Maloch | Director of Human Resource Highest-paid employee | 35 | $167,663 | $31,865 |
| Judith Waters | Director of Advancement Highest-paid employee | 35 | $181,124 | $17,811 |
| Wesley Haines | Director of Facilities Highest-paid employee | 35 | $154,131 | $26,840 |
| Michelle White | Senior Curator Highest-paid employee | 35 | $129,833 | $30,014 |
| Louisa Stude Sarofim | Chair Emerita Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Janet M Hobby | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Doug L Lawing | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Caroline Huber | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| James W Stewart Jr | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Zilkha | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Nancy Abendshein | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Eddie R Allen III | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Suzanne Deal Booth | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Clare T Casademont | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Hilda Curran | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Cheryl Finley | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| David Fitch | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Aziz Friedrich | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Glassman | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Barbara Goot-Gamson | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Cecily Horton | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| George Kelly | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Dillon Kyle | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Janie C Lee | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Isabel Lummis | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Francois de Menil | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Clemence Molin | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Franci Neely | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Anaeze Offodile | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Marilyn Oshman | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| William E Pritchard III | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| David Ruiz | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Leslie Elkins Sasser | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 1519 BRANARD ST, HOUSTON, TX 77006-4721
- In care of
- % MENI
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Rebecca Rabinow, 1519 Branard Street, Houston, TX 770064721
- Signed the 990
- William Jukes, CFO
- Phone
- (713) 525-9400
- Return prepared by
- Blazek & Vetterling
Mission
The Menil Collection ("The Menil") is committed to its founders' belief that art is essential to human experience. The Menil fosters direct personal encounters with art, and welcomes all visitors free of charge to its museum buildings and surrounding green spaces.
Program accomplishments
- Exhibitions, art displays, and neighborhood enhancement: The Menil Collection regularly rotates displays of its permanent collection and organizes loan exhibitions, primarily in the main museum building and in the Menil Drawing Institute. The Menil's thirty-acre campus includes three other art buildings - Cy Twombly Gallery, the Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, and the Fresco Building along with bungalows serving as staff offices, and a bookstore. The Menil Foundation rents out a number of properties in the neighborhood, including some to other non-profits at discounted rates, and maintains a significant amount of green space, which contributes to the unique vitality of the Menil neighborhood. (Continued on Schedule O)Additionally the Foundation maintains the historic Menil House, the former residence of the museum's founders, which is located in a nearby neighborhood, and serves as the site for museum functions.Expenses $9,556,869 · revenue $2,699,577
- Curatorial and collections - The Menil cares for more than 17,000 works of art in its permanent collection spanning the prehistoric to the present day. The museum's holdings comprise four primary areas of focus: artifacts and objects from the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, and the Near East; medieval and Byzantine art, objects, and icon paintings; the arts of Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas and the American Pacific Northwest; and modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, drawings and works on paper, photography, and installations, with concentrations in Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism.Expenses $9,044,126 · revenue $240,560
- Education and public programs - Each year the Menil presents a variety of free educational programs and events, including artist and curator lectures, panel discussions and book readings, musical performances, and film screenings. Since 1989, the Menil and the non-profit Writers in the Schools have collaborated to offer an experiential arts education program that introduces young students to fine arts and creative writing.Expenses $1,997,134 · grants $50,000 · revenue $49,427
- Membership - The Menil Collection offers three categories of membership, each with a unique focus and benefits. In addition to general memberships, the museum's Menil Contemporaries program is a membership group for emerging patrons, collectors, and art enthusiasts who share a common passion for the Menil Collection. The Menil Society is a group of committed patrons who enjoy a strong relationship with the Menil. Members are dedicated to fostering deeper engagement with the museum, its mission, and its world-renowned collection by generously supporting exhibitions, programming, and the museum's annual fund.Expenses $681,824 · revenue $74,970
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in June, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | June 30, 2026 | November 16, 2026 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | June 30, 2025 | November 17, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | June 30, 2024 | November 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 74-6045327
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1955
- Accounting year ends
- June
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A51)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $527,697,861
- Income (IRS master file)
- $175,434,571
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | June 2025 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2025 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2023 | $30,492,218 | $27,521,111 | $482,060,472 | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2023 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2022 | $38,703,533 | $24,501,749 | $868,135,377 | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS publishes only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years appear here as 990.tax collects the monthly files. 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS.
Questions about MENIL FOUNDATION INC
- What is the EIN of MENIL FOUNDATION INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of MENIL FOUNDATION INC is 74-6045327.
- Is MENIL FOUNDATION INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1955.
- Are donations to MENIL FOUNDATION INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does MENIL FOUNDATION INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of MENIL FOUNDATION INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending June 30, 2026) is due November 16, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did MENIL FOUNDATION INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended June 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of MENIL FOUNDATION INC?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 names Rebecca Rabinow.
- Who are the officers and directors of MENIL FOUNDATION INC?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 31 people; 7 received compensation from the organization, the highest $583,140 (Rebecca Rabinow, Director).
- How much revenue does MENIL FOUNDATION INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $37,261,644, expenses of $31,282,405 and total assets of $527,697,861 at year end.
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