How much did REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$20MEducation$571kCivil Rights$336kHuman Services$333kCommunity Improvement$306kPhilanthropy$265kEnvironment$259kYouth Development$252kHousing & Shelter$80kOther$7.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

festivals paradesparades specialtcgsidetransittcg'sawards

2019

tcgfashiontcg'sawardsmax louielouie productionspotential

2020

kdhxphotographicarchitecturaldesignfrank lloydlloyd wrightguild

2021

nine pbsphotographickdhxplatforms theatretheatre dancedance creativecreative expressions

2022

challengeleadersequitablemovementneighborhoodsshakespearesober

2023

nestskillsclaytonprivatealongfathersunified

2024

asianwebster worldwideworldwide institutioninstitution ensuresensures learningexperiences transformtransform students

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k41 grants · $317k
$10k–50k102 grants · $2.3M
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$250k+10 grants · $4.5M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

CONTINUITY$600,000
ST LOUIS DANCE THEATER$600,000
THE MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS$500,000
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM$500,000
ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE$500,000
ST LOUIS BLACK REPERTORY COMPANY$500,000
THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION$500,000
ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION$300,000
ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$300,000
COUNTERPUBLIC$250,000
EXPLORE ST LOUIS$150,000
NORTH ST LOUIS ARTS COUNCIL$100,513
CINEMA ST LOUIS$100,000
OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS$100,000
CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS$80,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 13%. 59% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 189 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

189 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

189

Total granted

$27M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+27%

Still filing today

79%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

SL
ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +42%
TS
THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +13%
SL
ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +54%

Funded once

WL
WERQFEST LLC
one grant, 2023 · $100k
TB
THE BUTLER GROUP
one grant, 2023 · $75k
MA
MID-AMERICA ARTS ALLIANCEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Saint Louis Symphony Endowment Trust

To support the st louis symphony orchestra.

Arts & Culture

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

Nocca foundation champions the new orleans center for creative arts. we build philanthropic, lasting partnerships. we invest in young artists, their mentors and the community through programs that encourage educational and cultural…

Arts & Culture

Arts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City

Promoting the arts and the publics appreciation of the arts by supporting, providing education and increasing public awareness for and on behalf of the performing, visual, cinematic, and literary arts disciplines and charitable arts…

Arts & Culture

Regional Cultural and Performing Arts

Promote, encourage, and foster the arts & culture within the st. louis, missouri area

Arts & Culture

The Legacy Center Stl

Youth Development

Ballet Midwest

Educate, instruct, and perform dance

Arts & Culture

Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

Southwest Washington Center for the Arts

Philanthropy

Central Minnesota Arts Board

Fund local arts programs

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Greater St Louis Artists

To bring art to the public and support art education

Arts & Culture

Kansas City Art Institute

Mission: prepare gifted students to transform the world creatively through art and design. vision: to be an innovative leader in art and design education.

Education

Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jazz St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Affinia Healthcare. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%9/287

the rest of the field

13%

1,237/9,870

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.

05the grantee network

213 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

198/213

Grantees still filing

133/213

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$20,134,641Other$7,704,957Education$571,322Civil Rights$335,916Human Services$332,706Community Improvement$306,000Philanthropy$265,098

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.

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.

St Louis Community FoundationMO123× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Greater St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Washington University · Employees of Community Fund · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares 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 organisation REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ST LOUIS DANCE THEATER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237001556 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ST LOUIS DANCE THEATER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 82% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Regional Cultural and Performing Arts?

Find your warmest path to Regional Cultural and Performing Arts through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

213 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Regional Cultural and Performing Arts?

More from the funding graph

REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

213 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Regional Cultural and Performing Arts?

More from the funding graph