A decade ago, its endowment was about thirty-eight million dollars; borrowing to fund exhibitions reduced it to five million in 2008, and it is now $18.5 million.
Increased donations don't make up for revenue shortfalls, and commercial obligations from on high have even led researchers and curators to turn to grants to fund exhibitions.
The Smithsonian does not use government money to fund exhibitions.
Broad's 2008 bailout pledge called for $15 million over five years to help fund exhibitions.
Shortly after the news of the censorship hit, the Andy Warhol Foundation, a major donor to the Smithsonian, announced that it would no longer fund exhibitions at the Smithsonian until the censored work was replaced.
Lack of investor support may also cause the delay of a much-ballyhooed hotel that was to be built next to the park and is jeopardizing '96 Expo, a highly touted, privately funded exhibition and entertainment park that was to take up 10 city blocks near the park.
Scholarly, impeccably funded exhibitions on individual painters often have the same problem".
He funded exhibitions (his own work appeared in a couple), bought his friends' paintings at generous prices and paid Claude Monet's rent.
Europe's museums are increasingly turning to countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar for help in funding exhibitions.
The museum, which grew out of the first children's charity in the UK and the art collection created to endow and promote it, had requested donations to fund the exhibition.
Expanding upon the national conversation that is focused in Montgomery, and with support from the Isabel B. Wilson Memorial Fund, the exhibition debuts at the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa, on January 25 , 2019
