SEP 20, 2026
Search donor lists of American cultural institutions.
Easily explore 5,462,747 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 1,876,813 unique donor records. Every listing cites the document it came from. How this is built.
Advancement, development and prospect research teams license the full dataset. 1.9M donor records across 698 institutions, with a source citation on every line.
WHAT’S IN THE DATA REQUEST ACCESSEvery institution on this page
ALL 698 →
Top donors, museum by museum
Who sits on the board
ALL 517 →Trustee rosters come from each institution’s Form 990, which is public by law. 517 institutions, 158,229 named board members.
The most-listed donors
TOP MUSEUM DONORS →Names you will know
ALL PATRONS →Looked up this month
SEARCH BY NAME →These are some of the names people searched for on Google:
Who Uses PatronView
LICENSE THE DATA →Advancement & development
01University 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
02Reporters 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
03Museums and cultural organizations compare their own donor base against peer institutions: how many named donors, at which levels, and who overlaps between two boards.
Largest giving programs
BROWSE INSTITUTIONS →City listing
ALL INSTITUTIONS →News & updates
ALL NEWS →Licensing and bulk access
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.
REQUEST LICENSING INFO →- 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
- 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, 20 September 2026.
All data originates in documents published by the institutions themselves, or in IRS Form 990 filings that are public by law. PatronView holds no wealth estimates, no contact information and no private records, and is not affiliated with any institution listed. Individuals may request removal at patronview.com/removal.
PatronView indexes donor lists published by institutions in their own reports, newsletters, websites, and trustee rosters filed with the IRS on Form 990. Every listing comes from a document the institution published itself: annual reports and honor rolls, plus trustee rosters filed on Form 990. Amounts are the giving levels as published, never a verified gift total.
Figures shown are published giving levels, not verified gift amounts. A listing records that a name was printed in a document. It is not a statement about what anyone gave, owns or earns.
PatronView is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of any institution listed here. Institution logos identify the source of a published list. Ask to have your name removed.
