Governance and Funding
Tate is a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), funded in part by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
A NDPB is a body which carries out functions on behalf of the government department that sponsors it, but is administered independently. It is therefore able to focus entirely on its own objectives and make unbiased recommendations and decisions.
Tate supplements the grant it receives from the DCMS through other sources, including trading, sponsorship and admissions to temporary exhibitions and to Tate St Ives. In 2008–09 Tate generated over 60 percent of its income from non-government sources.
Tate is governed by a Board of Trustees.