Los Angeles, CA

The Enamel Arts Foundation

EIN 02-0806502

Arts, Culture & Heritage Museums & Visual Arts

Mission

To promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of modern and contemporary enameling by collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting, and sharing works from its national collection.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About The Enamel Arts Foundation

This profile is for The Enamel Arts Foundation (EIN 02-0806502), a registered 501(c)(3) arts organization based in Los Angeles that was verified against nonprofit registry listings and the organization’s own public materials. The Foundation builds and maintains a focused collection of modern and contemporary enamels, preserves artist archives, publishes scholarship, and serves as a “lending library” by developing exhibitions and loaning works to museums nationwide. In the last 2–3 years the Foundation has been active placing works with museums and supporting touring exhibitions (for example, gifts from the collection and exhibition support in 2024–2025), while continuing acquisitions and educational programming to increase public access to enameling.

Notable achievements

Large-scale museum donations

The Foundation donated significant portions of its holdings to major institutions (a widely reported major transfer of hundreds of works occurred in the early 2020s), and has gifted works to museums as part of a national initiative to increase access to enameling.

Support for national exhibitions

The Foundation organizes and circulates exhibitions and has supported touring and museum shows that increase public exposure to enamel art, including recent exhibition support and gifts used in museum shows in 2024–2025.

Strategic collection growth

The Foundation regularly acquires works through purchases and donations to fill historical gaps and to document contemporary practice, adding multiple recent acquisitions and artist gifts as part of an ongoing collection-development program.

At a glance

Total assets: $412K
Annual revenue: $114K
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 02-0806502
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Website: www.enamelarts.org
On Mahalo since: April 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Recognized by museum partners and specialty arts press for the depth and importance of its collection and for supporting exhibitions (coverage and acknowledgements in craft and metalsmithing publications and museum press).

Maintains public nonprofit profiles and is listed as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization in nonprofit databases and registries used by donors and foundations.

State-level charity registration and active collaboration with accredited museums support its standing as a donor-facing arts organization.

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