Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

What it reported doing in 2024

Exhibitions: the carnegie institute comprises four diverse, dynamic museums including the carnegie museum of art (cmoa), the carnegie museum of natural history (cmnh), the carnegie science center (csc), and the andy warhol museum (awm). Throughout 2024, each museum offered a rich and diverse roster of exhibitions and programs. See schedule o for highlights of each museum's exhibit initiatives.the carnegie institute offers memberships at a reduced rate or for free to various groups in the community, including family access memberships, teen memberships, and organizational outreach memberships (the last of these for clients of public-serving non-profit organizations).the andy warhol museumthe andy warhol museum (awm) is the most comprehensive single artist museum in the world, illuminating the art, life, and times of one of the most influential american artists of the 20th century. The museum explores the world through the lens of warhol's life and work, mounting innovative original exhibitions and thought-provoking traveling exhibitions, presenting genre-based performances, and showcasing up and coming acts, including young artists from pittsburgh, warhol's hometown. In may 2024, awm commemmorted its 30th anniversary with a preview of its kaws+warhol exhibition, attended by more than 400 people, a sold-out gala at carrie blast furnaces, and a community free day that welcomed 1000 visitors. The pop district, an initiative to transform a six-block section of the north shore surrounding the museum, made significant progress in 2024, including obtaining city approval for its plan to build a creative arts center that will host live performances and events. In 2024, the museum welcomed 159,877 visitors.the carnegie science center - csc (renamed the daniel g. And carole l. Kamin center in september 2025)titanic, the artifact exhbition, which the csc hosted from october 2023 to april 2024 set an alltime attendance record for traveling exhibits, with 140,000 visitors. In may 2024, csc opened another traveling exhibition, the science behind pixar, which explored the making of pixar's award-winning films through 50 interactive activities. Attendance reached 606,148 in 2024. Also in 2024, csc received a tranformational gift from daniel g. And carole l. Kamin, setting the stage for major new initiatives and resulting in its renaming as the kamin science center in 2025. Carnegie museum of artcarnegie museum of art (cmoa) houses a collection of more than 30,000 artworks, ranging from classic to contemporary. In 2024, cmoa presented several special exhibitions and accompanying programming that drew inspiration from the nexus of art, ecology, and the natural environment and situated local perspectives within a broader picture of the world today. These exhibits included "everlasting plastics," "marie watt: land stitches water sky," "widening the lens: photography, ecology, and the contemporary landscape, and "beate kuhn: turn." additionally, the museum opened a new gallery space dedicated to the life and work of iconinc pittsburgh photographer charles "teenie" harris. Attendance for 2024 reached 193,166.carnegie museum of natural historycarnegie museum of natural history (cmnh) continues to be ranked as one of the top natural history museums in the country. It maintains, preserves, and interprets an extraordinary collection of more than 22 million objects and scientific specimens used to broaden the understanding of evolution, conservation, and biodiversity. Cmnh opened "the stories we keep: conserving objects from ancient egypt," in march 2024, which featured more than 80 objects and gave visitors a first-hand look at how it cares for ancient artifacts. In july, the museum celebrated the 125th anniversary of the discovery of diplodocus carnegii (aka dippy) with events that included a teen night, a 21+ night, and a museum members celebration. Attendance for 2024 reached 300,483.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 71.8%; rating input score 72
• Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
• Fundraising efficiency: $8.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
• Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 97.6%; rating input score 98; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 28.1%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.79; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings