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Missouri Humanities Council
Our mission is to enrich lives and strengthen communities by connecting missourians to the people, places, and ideas that shape our society.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 54 grants below total $507,910 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $857,001 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $349,091 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORY MUSEUM ON THE SQUARE | $10,000 |
| BOOTHEEL YOUTH MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| FOR THE PEOPLE POW WOW COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| HANNIBAL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| OZARK VITALITY | $10,000 |
| FOR THE PEOPLE POW WOW COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS MEDIA HISTORY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WEST PLAINS COUNCIL ON THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| DOGTOWN UNITED | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC BETHEL GERMAN COLONY INC | $10,000 |
| THE GRIOT MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| KATHRYN M BUDER CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MATTIE RHODES CENTER | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PEPONY EXPRESS MUSEUM INC4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +199%
- TLTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY4× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +29%
- MNMISSOURI NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL4× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- NUNATIONAL U S GRANT TRAIL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $24k
- KCKANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +401%
- FCFRENCH COLONIAL AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue -71%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Collection and preservation of historical documents pertaining to saint charles county, missouri and making them available to the general public
Support of municipal art museum.
As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st. louis, the regional arts commission leverages the power of creativity to strengthen and enrich our community.
Operation of a local history museum.
Kmac is louisvilles premier contemporary art museum in downtown louisville on museum row. through exhibitions, education, and outreach, kmac works to connect people to art and creative practice.
The mission of the le sueur county historical society is to collect and preserve the story of le sueur county, telling its history through historic sites, a research center, collections, exhibits, and educational programming.
Coordinate an outdoor sculpture museum around springfield, mo
Art St Louis is a nonprofit community art organization and gallery dedicated to enriching lives through the creative activity of our region's contemporary visual artists. Through exhibition, education, and exchange, we connect and inspire…
To preserve, maintain and restore historical artifacts and information for future generations.
Education and preservation of history.
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Public art exhibitions and education. missoula art museum serves the public by engaging audiences and artists in the exploration of contemporary art relevant to the community, state, and region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The State Historical Society of Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Marais Des Cygnes Society Poplar Heights Farm Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 134 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PONY EXPRESS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds METRO THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Trail of Tears Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI ALLIANCE FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds OZARK VITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds CINEMA ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds History Museum on the Square Inc ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DIASPORA CONNECTIONS UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HANNIBAL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST PLAINS COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOOT HEEL YOUTH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT JOPLIN INTERNATIONAL RAGTIME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STLOUIS MEDIA HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE ↗
- Who funds DOGTOWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BETHEL GERMAN COLONY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council · Edward Jones Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Missouri Humanities Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trail of Tears Association Inc — 59% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.