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Mid-America Arts Alliance

Guided by the vision of "More Art for All People," Mid-America Arts Alliance partners with and supports artists, cultural organizations, and communities to expand access to the arts, culture, and creativity across the region and beyond.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
71
Itemized grants FY2025
49
Organizations funded FY2023
65%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.1M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$23,958
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 111
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
26
Total assets, FY2025
$12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Mid-America Arts Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $597k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving71$2.1M77%
FY202349$818k65%
FY2022111$2.2M65%
FY202160$1.9M80%
FY20206$72k67%
FY201919$201k74%
FY201822$264k91%
FY201729$800kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$8.1MHealth$79kHuman Services$71kEnvironment$50kYouth Development$40kEducation$23k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Interurban Arthouse$120,115317%
Curators of the University of Missouri$114,1601n/a
City of Mesa$105,2052n/a
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Inc$100,00031%
Greenwood Cultural Center Inc$100,000210%
Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition$97,500213%
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods$90,00022%
Armed Services Arts Partnership$90,00025%
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture$90,00021%
Cara Mia Theatre Co$90,00037%
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All grantees of Mid-America Arts Alliance by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Interurban Arthouse$120,115317%
Curators of the University of Missouri$114,1601n/a
City of Mesa$105,2052n/a
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Inc$100,00031%
Greenwood Cultural Center Inc$100,000210%
Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition$97,500213%
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods$90,00022%
Armed Services Arts Partnership$90,00025%
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture$90,00021%
Cara Mia Theatre Co$90,00037%
Outside the Lens$90,00022%
El Museo Latino$90,00037%
The Union for Contemporary Art Inc$90,00023%
Norman Arts Council$90,00028%
Black Liberated Arts Center Inc$89,000222%
St Louis ArtWorks$86,610310%
Project Row Houses$85,00011%
Nebraska Writers Collective$80,000210%
Asc for Se Arkansas$75,0002n/a
The Ensemble Theatre$75,00023%
Mexic-Arte Museum$75,00023%
National Blues Museum$72,50036%
Black Archives of Mid-America Inc$70,00019%
Ra-Ve Cultural Foundation Inc$70,000214%
No Divide KC$70,0002n/a
Fuse Box Austin$67,5001n/a
Deep Center Incorporated$67,500113%
Justice Dance Performance Project Inc$67,500115%
The Center for Urban Pedagogy Inc$67,42416%
Harvester Arts$67,150514%
Artsconnect Inc$66,150419%
Arts Council of Johnson County$66,000217%
Spacetaker$65,15045%
Oklahomans for the Arts Inc$65,000219%
Say Si$63,90023%
Exit 12 Dance Company Inc$58,000228%
Fort Wayne Dance Collective Inc$56,70018%
Path With Art$52,00011%
Decolonizing the Music Room$50,0001n/a
Echo Collective$50,000112%
Islamic Arts Society$50,000121%
Anastasis Theatre Co$50,0001n/a
The Black Actor's League LLC$50,0001n/a
East Lubbock Art House$50,0001n/a
Deltaarts Inc$50,000214%
Great Promise for American Indians$50,0001n/a
Third Space Foundation$50,0001n/a
Museum of Deaf History Arts and Culture$50,000130%
Native Fashion Arts Collective LLC$50,0001n/a
Monthaven Arts & Cultural Center$50,00011%
Community Building Art Works$50,0001n/a
Diaz Music Institute$50,0001n/a
Mulberry Arts Inc$50,0001n/a
American Jazz Museum$50,00023%
Visionairi Foundation$50,0001n/a
Creative Movement Inc$50,000148%
Mosaic Arts Collective$50,0001n/a
Entre LLC$50,0001n/a
Soul Rep Theatre Company$50,000117%
St Louis Art Place Initiative Inc$50,0001n/a
Local Environmental Action Demanded Agency Inc$50,0001n/a
Big Red Barn Retreat$50,00012%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$50,0001n/a
Prison Performing Arts$48,37538%
Museum of Glass$48,00021%
Resounding Joy Inc$48,00026%
Blixt Locally Grown$47,200223%
Art Spark Texas$45,00024%
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc$42,50020%
Amplify Arts$41,00038%
Salina Art Center Inc$40,00014%
Community Music Center of Houston$40,000116%
St Louis African Chorus$40,0001n/a
Boot Heel Youth Museum Inc$40,000112%
Choregus Productions Inc$40,000113%
Circle Theatre Inc$40,000216%
Modern Warrior Live$40,000110%
Josephine Herrick Project Inc$40,00019%
Calico Rock Community Foundation Inc$40,000112%
Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse$40,00010%
Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc$40,00013%
Tacoma Arts Live$40,00010%
Bff Omaha Inc$40,000111%
The Kansas African American Museum Inc$40,00013%
Old Globe Theatre$40,00010%
Museum of Human Achievement$40,00016%
Diavolo Dance Theatre$40,00016%
Dance of Asian America$40,000216%
Bihl Haus Arts Inc$40,00018%
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center Inc$40,00010%
FRONTLINE ARTS A New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation$40,000113%
Allison Orr Dance Inc$37,50032%
Collide$37,500311%
Theatre Squared Inc$37,50030%
Cosacosa Art at Large Inc$36,800115%
The Theatre Lab Inc$35,20012%
Folk Alliance International$35,00023%
Whyarts Inc$35,00025%
Texans for the Arts Foundation$34,670248%
Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Inc$34,50031%
Arkansans for the Arts$33,9202n/a
Lawrence Arts Center Inc$33,50021%
De-Cruit Inc$30,308115%
Teatro Hispano de Dallas$30,00027%
Mid-America All-Indian Center Inc$30,00025%
Ballet Oklahoma Inc$30,00020%
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston$29,00020%
Texas Folklife Resources$28,76523%
Dancing Well The Soldier Project$28,000230%
SongwritingWith Inc$25,0001n/a
Killeen Creators$25,000129%
Delaware Art Museum Inc$25,0001n/a
Indianapolis Art Center Inc$25,00010%
Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc$25,00010%
Seattle Opera$25,00010%
Nebraskans for the Arts Inc$24,678217%
Greentrike$23,9581n/a
Arts One Presents Inc$23,50032%
Arts Council of Oklahoma City$23,50020%
Mount Sequoyah Center Inc$23,00011%
Tennessee Shakespeare Company$23,00021%
Cb Goddard Center for Visual & Performing Arts$22,76621%
Regina Klenjoski Dance Company$22,50027%
Autismoklahomaorg Inc$22,50024%
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Inc$22,50020%
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Inc$22,50021%
Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network Foundation$22,50020%
Salvage Vanguard Theater$22,500214%
Missouri Alliance for Arts Education$21,150117%
Virginia Beach Art Center Inc$21,00023%
Arts Center Association Inc$20,00011%
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City$20,00019%
Manhattan Arts Center Inc$20,00013%
The Anderson Center for the Arts$20,00015%
Huntingdon County Arts Council$20,0001n/a
Pegasus Media Project$20,000131%
Creativets$20,00010%
Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance Inc$20,000113%
Creativity Unlimited Arts Council$20,00016%
Lawrence Children's Choir Inc$20,000111%
En Garde Arts Inc$20,00014%
Missouri Citizens for the Arts$20,0001n/a
Tejas Storytelling Association$20,000116%
Trucha$20,00014%
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$20,00011%
Film Society of Austin Inc$20,00010%
Voice of Arkansas Minority Advocacy Council$20,00016%
Art For The Journey$20,00022%
Mabee-Gerrer Museum$20,00012%
Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation$20,00010%
Kansas City Ballet Association$19,57610%
Dance Source Houston$19,52017%
Anchorage Concert Association Inc$19,02020%
Caregivers on the Homefront Inc$19,01629%
Washington Drama Society Inc$18,00010%
Community Artists Collective$16,00016%
Argenta Arts Foundation Inc$16,00022%
Writers' League of Texas$16,00013%
India Fine Arts Inc$16,000110%
Capitol View Arts$16,000114%
West Nebraska Arts Center$15,80025%
Fisterra Projects$15,000112%
Glass Half Full Theatre$15,00015%
Laumeier Sculpture Park$15,00011%
Low Key Arts$15,0001n/a
Diverseworks Inc$15,00015%
Fresh Arts Coalition$15,0002n/a
Tricycle Theatre for Youth$15,00013%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc$15,00010%
Mesner Puppet Theater$15,00013%
Blue Barn Theatre$15,00012%
So Say We All$15,000119%
Amarillo Museum of Art$15,0001n/a
University of Central Arkansas$15,0001n/a
The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts$15,00011%
St Louis Black Repertory Company Inc$15,00011%
Metropolitan Community College Foundation$15,00010%
The Coterie Inc$15,00011%
Houston Metropolitan Dance Center Inc$15,00011%
Noblemotion Dance$15,000111%
National Instruments Corporation$15,0001n/a
Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc$15,00010%
Templeton Productions LLC$15,0001n/a
Performing Arts Houston$15,00010%
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc$15,00011%
Classen Ten Penn Neighborhood Association$15,0001n/a
Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music$15,0001n/a
Culture of Health - Advancing Together$15,0001n/a
Artist's Laboratory Theatre$15,0001n/a
Prism Movement Theater$15,000123%
Apollo Chamber Players$15,00014%
Arcos Foundation for the Arts Inc$15,0001n/a
Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts$14,71216%
Art Maker LLC$14,0001n/a
Prison Story Project$13,500120%
Junior Players Guild$13,00011%
Sandhills Institute$12,5001n/a
Nebraska Folklife Network Inc$12,4481n/a
Literary Cleveland$12,00021%
Dance Council$11,460118%
Robert M Merryman Performing Art Ce$11,21812%
Midwest Artist Project Services$11,0001n/a
Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance$10,34418%
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond$10,00010%
Tilt$10,000114%
Intoto Creative Arts Forum$10,00016%
Creative Waco$10,00011%
Flatlands Dance Theater$10,0001n/a
Marshall University Research Corporation$10,00010%
USA Film Festival$10,00014%
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc$10,0001n/a
East Lubbock Art House$10,00019%
The Help USA Fund Inc$10,00010%
Make Art With Purpose Incorporated$10,000117%
Grand River Arts Council$10,0001n/a
Hispanic Festival Inc$10,000110%
Colorado Photographic Arts Center Inc$10,00012%
Art Maker LLC$10,00017%
Dances of India$10,000115%
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra$10,00011%
The Luminary Inc$10,0001n/a
Canterbury Voices Inc$10,0001n/a
True Soul Media Group$10,0001n/a
Oklahoma Arts Council$10,0001n/a
Brady Craft Inc$10,00013%
Montgomery County Council for the Arts$10,0001n/a
Spark Creative Lab Inc$10,000112%
Urbanglass New York Contemporary Glass Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Open Mouth Reading Series$10,0001n/a
Blue River Arts Council Inc$10,00014%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$10,00010%
FrenetiCore$10,0001n/a
Yew Mountain Center$10,0001n/a
Chamber Music Tulsa$9,98511%
Aurora Picture Show$9,0001n/a
Western Plains Arts Association$9,00018%
Kinetic Ensemble$8,600112%
Des Moines Arts Festival Inc$8,50011%
Northwest Arkansas Council Foundation$8,50010%
Southeast Missouri State University$8,1001n/a
University of Alabama at Birmingham$8,0001n/a
The Donna Lexa Community Art Centers Inc$8,00012%
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc$8,00010%
Center for African American Militar History$8,00010%
The Arts Asylum$8,00015%
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem$8,00011%
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc$8,00010%
Community Radio Project Inc Ksjd$8,00011%
Shelterbelt Theatre$8,0001n/a
Piece by Piece$8,00011%
Seattle Repertory Theatre$8,00010%
Cohesion Dance Project$8,00014%
Open Studio Project Inc$8,00012%
Footprints Inc$8,00010%
Kansas Alliance For The Arts In Education$8,0001n/a
Conway Symphony Orchestra Inc$7,90014%
Levoy Theatre Preservation Society$7,73810%
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis$7,50010%
Perpetual Motion Modern Dance Oklahoma Inc$7,500117%
Canton Museum of Art$7,50010%
Art League of Houston$7,50011%
Organ Vespers Series Incorporated$7,3251n/a
The Music Education Initiative$7,25016%
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective$7,00013%
The Oxford American Literary Project Inc$6,44510%
Lux Center for the Arts$6,00011%
Kentucky Shakespeare Inc$6,00010%
Seark Concert Assn$6,00017%
St Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts$6,00014%
Kansas City Volunteer Lawyers & Accountants for the Arts$6,0001n/a
Regents of the University of Idaho$5,6001n/a
U S Center Foundation Inc$5,59018%
Friends of the Midwest Theater$5,50011%
Marshall County Arts Cooperative$5,500117%

Where it is load-bearing

Mid-America Arts Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInterurban Arthouse: $120,115 over 3y, 17% of budgetDallas Black Dance Theatre Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGreenwood Cultural Center Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOklahoma Visual Arts Coalition: $97,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetBrushwood Center at Ryerson Woods: $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetArmed Services Arts Partnership: $90,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetNational Association of Latino Arts and Culture: $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCara Mia Theatre Co: $90,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetOutside the Lens: $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEl Museo Latino: $90,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetThe Union for Contemporary Art Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNorman Arts Council: $90,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetBlack Liberated Arts Center Inc: $89,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSt Louis ArtWorks: $86,610 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetProject Row Houses: $85,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNebraska Writers Collective: $80,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Ensemble Theatre: $75,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMexic-Arte Museum: $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNational Blues Museum: $72,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBlack Archives of Mid-America Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetRa-Ve Cultural Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetDeep Center Incorporated: $67,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetJustice Dance Performance Project Inc: $67,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe Center for Urban Pedagogy Inc: $67,424 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHarvester Arts: $67,150 over 5y, 14% of budgetArtsconnect Inc: $66,150 over 4y, 19% of budgetArts Council of Johnson County: $66,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSpacetaker: $65,150 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetOklahomans for the Arts Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSay Si: $63,900 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetExit 12 Dance Company Inc: $58,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetFort Wayne Dance Collective Inc: $56,700 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetPath With Art: $52,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEcho Collective: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetIslamic Arts Society: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDeltaarts Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMuseum of Deaf History Arts and Culture: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetMonthaven Arts & Cultural Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Jazz Museum: $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCreative Movement Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetSoul Rep Theatre Company: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBig Red Barn Retreat: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPrison Performing Arts: $48,375 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetMuseum of Glass: $48,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetResounding Joy Inc: $48,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBlixt Locally Grown: $47,200 over 2y, 23% of budgetArt Spark Texas: $45,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Houston Arts AllianceTX44× affinity22 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Arts Alliance · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Nac Development Corporation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · The Francis Family Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Weitz Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Mid-America Arts Alliance

How much does Mid-America Arts Alliance give?
Mid-America Arts Alliance reported 71 itemized grants totaling $2,056,541, out of $3,522,317 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 111 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mid-America Arts Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Health (1%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Mid-America Arts Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Interurban Arthouse ($120k), Curators of the University of Missouri ($114k), City of Mesa ($105k).
Does Mid-America Arts Alliance fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mid-America Arts Alliance?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Arts Alliance, Peter Kiewit Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc.
Where is Mid-America Arts Alliance based?
Mid-America Arts Alliance is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 275 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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