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Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission

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.

$10M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
166
Itemized grants FY2024
180
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$8.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$600,000
Organizations funded a year
51 to 180
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$9.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $963k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving160$8.2M21%
FY2023180$5.4M31%
FY202285$1.0M25%
FY202151$1.5M24%
FY202060$1.6M3%
FY2019121$4.0M14%
FY2018109$3.8M16%
FY2017124$3.9Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$27MEducation$452kCommunity Improvement$411kYouth Development$212kHuman Services$158kHealth$102kHousing & Shelter$80kCivil Rights$70kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra$1,771,52071%
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis$1,173,826716%
The Sheldon Arts Foundation$1,144,39788%
St Louis Shakespeare Festival$1,109,049718%
Dance Saint Louis$1,030,912782%
Center of Creative Arts$998,24773%
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis$951,10472%
Jazz St Louis$769,89075%
The Repertory Theatre of St Louis$764,12572%
Stages St Louis$742,23773%
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All grantees of Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra$1,771,52071%
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis$1,173,826716%
The Sheldon Arts Foundation$1,144,39788%
St Louis Shakespeare Festival$1,109,049718%
Dance Saint Louis$1,030,912782%
Center of Creative Arts$998,24773%
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis$951,10472%
Jazz St Louis$769,89075%
The Repertory Theatre of St Louis$764,12572%
Stages St Louis$742,23773%
Continuity$652,5005n/a
St Louis Black Repertory Company Inc$618,983549%
Laumeier Sculpture Park$586,89376%
Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis$542,90051%
Craft Alliance$392,31777%
The St Louis Children's Choirs$386,56777%
Double Helix Corporation$379,58066%
Metro Theater Company$364,22079%
Springboard to Learning Inc$315,91678%
St Louis American Foundation$300,000153%
St Louis ArtWorks$293,61488%
Circus Harmony$287,905712%
Saint Louis Ballet Company$280,25072%
Stray Dog Theatre$277,85876%
Cinema St Louis$275,524411%
St Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts$263,047335%
Circus Flora Inc$257,58658%
Radio Arts Foundation$254,58965%
Counterpublic$250,00012%
Union Avenue Opera Theatre$233,939710%
The Bach Society of Saint Louis$219,225710%
Diaspora Connections Unlimited$186,974523%
Art St Louis$176,626712%
St Louis Regional Public Media Inc$175,00031%
The Luminary Inc$172,251623%
Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis$160,50020%
St Louis Cathedral Concerts$156,413613%
National Blues Museum$155,71354%
Life Creative Group$150,0002n/a
St Louis Art Place Initiative Inc$150,000227%
Explore St Louis$150,0001n/a
St Louis Dance Theatre$138,71265%
North St Louis Arts Council$137,1542n/a
A Call to Conscience$136,300717%
Mid America Dance Company$130,402725%
Landmarks Association of St Louis Inc$127,290614%
Pianos for People$126,10376%
The Kranzberg Arts Foundation$125,00031%
St Louis Artists Guild$123,36568%
Heal's Center for the Arts$122,000333%
Central Print$118,963636%
St Lou Fringe$118,613717%
Winter Opera St Louis$115,84065%
Intersect Arts Center$115,77378%
Bread & Roses Missouri$114,248718%
Upstream Theater$113,214622%
St Louis Classical Guitar$112,205610%
New City Fellowship$111,3813n/a
Photo Art & Science Foundation$109,323616%
That Uppity Theatre Company$108,753623%
Critical Mass$108,0002n/a
South Broadway Art Project$107,963616%
Dances of India$101,900734%
Werqfest LLC$100,0001n/a
Tennessee Williams Festival St Louis$99,713513%
Prison Performing Arts$99,40077%
Saint Louis Chamber Chorus$94,613615%
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective$94,31269%
Perennial$92,58668%
St Louis African Chorus$91,924522%
Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center$91,4007n/a
Chamber Project St Louis$89,900720%
Gateway Men's Chorus$87,475618%
The African Heritage Association of St Louis Inc$86,900714%
University City Symphony Orchestra Association$85,000640%
December Publishing Inc$85,000619%
City of St Louis$84,0005n/a
The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park$82,00063%
Artist First$81,150511%
Pack Dance$80,713316%
International Institute of Metropolitan St Louis$79,00060%
Saint Louis Actors Studio$78,214441%
Midwest Artist Project Services$77,6004n/a
The Butler Group$75,0001n/a
Mid-America Arts Alliance$75,00011%
Chamber Music Society of St Louis Inc$74,90065%
Shaw Neighborhood Improvement Association$71,50068%
Deaf Empowerment Awareness Foundation Inc$71,00061%
The Saint Louis Womens Chorale$70,000568%
Gateway Festival Orchestra of St Louis$69,500617%
Big River Association$69,500527%
Opojaz Inc$68,000519%
New Music Circle$68,000526%
Atrek Educational Corporation$66,500531%
World Chess Museum Inc$64,71431%
Better Family Life Inc$63,00060%
Missouri Chamber Music Inc$62,5005n/a
St Louis Poetry Center$62,500521%
South City Open Studio & Gallery for Children Inc$61,50059%
Focal Point Corporation$61,000411%
Jewish Community Center$60,50050%
Artica$59,900537%
Scottish Partnership for Arts Andeducation$59,0006n/a
Dayspring Arts & Education$58,63021%
Charis - the St Louis Womens Chorus$58,000617%
Peter & Paul Community Services Inc$57,00050%
St Louis Arts Chamber of Commerce$56,998314%
Cultural Festivals$56,40052%
Cabaret Project of Saint Louis$56,000418%
Cultural Leadership Inc$55,00026%
Building Futures Inc$54,75049%
Karlovsky & Company Dance$53,000613%
Hope Creates$52,00038%
New Line Theatre Inc$51,000415%
Metropolitan Orchestra of Saint Louis$50,500330%
The Magic House$50,50050%
Sound Diplomacy Inc$50,0001n/a
Race Forward$50,00010%
Rung Foundation Inc$50,00015%
Humans of St Louis$50,000158%
Sangeetha$49,4005n/a
Ignite Theatre Company$48,713310%
Carondelet Community Betterment Federation Inc$48,50053%
Saint Louis Civic Orchestra$48,500520%
Hispanic Festival Inc$48,20046%
Yourwords STL$46,822536%
Twangfest Inc$45,5003n/a
American Chamber Chorale$45,500329%
Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc$45,00011%
Jazz Edge Inc$44,0004n/a
Ohmkaram$43,5004n/a
St Louis Shakespeare$40,500419%
Kinetic Tapestry Physical Theatre Inc$40,200413%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc$39,00030%
Variety the Childrens Charity of St Louis$39,00030%
St Louis Filmworks$37,218210%
Grace Hill Settlement House$36,00030%
Focus St Louis$35,00022%
Resilience Dance Company Stl$35,000215%
Webster Arts$35,00027%
Soul Siren Playhouse$35,000265%
Dance Moves Stl$35,000210%
St Louis Irish Arts$35,000313%
Saint Louis String Collective$34,5502n/a
Gene Slay's Boys' Club of St Louis Inc$34,50031%
Urbstetiks Inc$33,2503n/a
Max & Louie Productions$31,5003n/a
St Louis Cultural Flamenco Society$31,000325%
Revival School Saint Louis$30,900322%
The Legend Singers Choral Ensemble$30,4802n/a
Park Central Development Corporation$30,00021%
Theatre Communications Group Inc$30,00020%
Black Tulip Chorale$30,000218%
Contemporary Presentations LLC$30,0001n/a
Whitfield Foundation for Success$30,0003n/a
Puppet Guild of Greater St Louis$30,0002n/a
Tesseract Theatre Company$29,7783n/a
Community Arts Stl$29,4512n/a
4theVille$28,500311%
Hearding Cats Collective Inc$28,5003n/a
Albion Theatre Inc$27,7552n/a
Missouri Alliance for Arts Education$27,550218%
Flyover Comedy Festival$27,400210%
Civic Arts Company$26,5003n/a
Mvstermind LLC$26,0001n/a
Creative Reaction Lab$25,50021%
Arts & Faith St Louis Organization$25,000215%
American City Business Journals Inc$25,0001n/a
Wildlife Rescue Center$25,00023%
The Noble Neighbor$25,000123%
St Louis University$25,00020%
St Louis County Library Foundation$25,00021%
Youth Arts & Technology Center$24,9003n/a
Equally Represented Arts$24,8391n/a
The Gallery at the Universtiy City Public Library$24,0002n/a
Bold Moves Worldwide LLC$24,0001n/a
Gateway Center for Performing Arts Association$24,00022%
Rector Wardens & Vestrymen of St Stephens Protestant Episcopal Chur$24,0002n/a
Soorya Performing Arts$24,000218%
Frizzy by Nature LLC$23,0002n/a
Techartista Foundation$23,000213%
Cherokee Events$23,00026%
Gateway Korea Foundation$23,0002n/a
Arts in Transit Inc$22,50024%
Rise Community Development$22,50021%
Freedom Arts and Education Center$22,25028%
Anu-Rag School of Music$22,0002n/a
Philharmonic Society of St Louis$22,00036%
Town and Country Symphony Orchestra$21,3603n/a
Annonyarts Dba Satori$21,000222%
Mathews-Dickey Boys' & Girls' Club$21,00021%
Junior League of Saint Louis$21,00025%
Hec-Tv$21,000216%
Express Education Institute$20,0081n/a
Pride St Louis Inc$20,00013%
Allegro - a St Louis Choral Community$20,0001n/a
Friends of Jeske Park Sculpture Garden$20,0001n/a
Pointe of Surrender Nfp$20,000137%
Fly North Theatricals$20,000119%
Insight Theatre Company$19,50026%
Webster University$18,00010%
LitShop$18,00029%
St Louis National Pan-Hellenic Council$18,0001n/a
P Woodmore Music LLC$17,5002n/a
St Louis Wind Symphony$17,0002n/a
Kingdom House D/B/A Lifewise Stl$16,00020%
Union Communion Ministries Inc$16,000213%
Harris-Stowe Foundation Inc$16,00011%
Community Gospel Choir of St Louis$16,0002n/a
Gateway Arch Park Foundation$15,50020%
The Mink Slide LLC$15,0001n/a
Stl Rhythm Collaborative$15,000115%
Affinia Healthcare$15,00010%
Neon Museum of St Louis$15,0001n/a
ETHICS PROJECT The Ethics Project$15,0001n/a
Unleashing Potential$15,0001n/a
STL Village Inc$15,00017%
Fractured Atlas Inc$15,00010%
Saint Louis Visionary Awards$15,0001n/a
Fathers Support Center St Louis$15,00010%
Church in Action Inc$15,0001n/a
First Civilizations Inc$15,0001n/a
Ecotones Concerts$15,0001n/a
Wepower$15,00011%
Chorus America$15,00011%
The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council$15,00012%
Nest Inc$15,00010%
St Louis Camera Club Inc$14,5241n/a
All the Art$14,2502n/a
Skinker Debaliviere Comm Council$14,000112%
Gateway Region Young Men's Christian Association$14,00020%
Thomas Dunn Memorials$13,00013%
Gitana Productions$12,0001n/a
Saint Louis Fashion Fund$12,00012%
Hawthorne Players$12,000117%
Show-Me Sound Organization$12,0001n/a
Mango Social Marketing LLC$12,0001n/a
St Louis County Parks$12,0001n/a
The Woke Brand$11,0971n/a
Grand Center Inc$10,50011%
City of Florissant$10,5001n/a
Community Health in Partnership Services (Chips)$10,50012%
Florissant Fine Arts Council$10,500122%
The Very Asian Foundation$10,00017%
Creative Brain Foundation$10,0001n/a
St Louis Black Authors of Childrens Literature$10,00012%
Lotus Labs$10,0001n/a
Panoramic Vision LLC$10,0001n/a
Project Present$10,000112%
Tribe All Good$10,0001n/a
The Solid Lines Productions$9,0001n/a
Compton Heights Band Inc$9,00010%
Chesterfield Parks Recreation and Arts$9,0001n/a
Cherokee Street Development League$9,0001n/a
Saint Louis Independent Comics Expo Inc$8,0001n/a
Sangama$8,0001n/a
Down Syndrome Association of Greater St Louis$8,00010%
Family Resources and Community Connections Inc$8,0001n/a
Washington University$8,00010%
Laclede's Landing Neighborhood Association$8,0001n/a
First Run Theatre Inc$8,0001n/a
Good Journey Development Foundation$8,00013%
St Louis Society for the Blind$8,000111%
St Louis Audubon Society$8,00013%
Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation$8,00011%
Delmar Main Street Initiative$8,00019%
Municipal Commission on Arts & Letters of University City Mo$8,0001n/a
Eugene Field House Foundation$7,75012%
Portfolio Inc$7,500125%
Community Women Against Hardship$7,50013%
Special Education Foundation$7,20011%
Saint Louis Brass Band$7,0001n/a
Art Unleashed Inc$7,00015%
City of Webster Groves$7,0001n/a
Missouri Travel Council Inc Missouri Travel Alliance$7,00014%
Life Arts Inc$6,50018%
The Village Path$6,00016%
Be Art Gallery and Studio$6,0001n/a
St Louis Confluence$6,0001n/a
In Her Sound Inc$5,6001n/a
Urban Sprouts Child Development Center$5,20610%
Opera America Inc$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 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 budgetSaint Louis Symphony Orchestra: $1,771,520 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetContemporary Art Museum St Louis: $1,173,826 over 7y, 16% of budgetThe Sheldon Arts Foundation: $1,144,397 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetSt Louis Shakespeare Festival: $1,109,049 over 7y, 18% of budgetDance Saint Louis: $1,030,912 over 7y, 82% of budgetCenter of Creative Arts: $998,247 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $951,104 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetJazz St Louis: $769,890 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetThe Repertory Theatre of St Louis: $764,125 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetStages St Louis: $742,237 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetSt Louis Black Repertory Company Inc: $618,983 over 5y, 49% of budgetLaumeier Sculpture Park: $586,893 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetMunicipal Theatre Association of St Louis: $542,900 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCraft Alliance: $392,317 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetThe St Louis Children's Choirs: $386,567 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetDouble Helix Corporation: $379,580 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetMetro Theater Company: $364,220 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetSpringboard to Learning Inc: $315,916 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetSt Louis American Foundation: $300,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetSt Louis ArtWorks: $293,614 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetCircus Harmony: $287,905 over 7y, 12% of budgetSaint Louis Ballet Company: $280,250 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetStray Dog Theatre: $277,858 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetCinema St Louis: $275,524 over 4y, 11% of budgetSt Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts: $263,047 over 3y, 35% of budgetCircus Flora Inc: $257,586 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetRadio Arts Foundation: $254,589 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetCounterpublic: $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUnion Avenue Opera Theatre: $233,939 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetThe Bach Society of Saint Louis: $219,225 over 7y, 10% of budgetDiaspora Connections Unlimited: $186,974 over 5y, 23% of budgetArt St Louis: $176,626 over 7y, 12% of budgetSt Louis Regional Public Media Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Luminary Inc: $172,251 over 6y, 23% of budgetUrban League of Metropolitan St Louis: $160,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Louis Cathedral Concerts: $156,413 over 6y, 13% of budgetNational Blues Museum: $155,713 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetSt Louis Art Place Initiative Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetSt Louis Dance Theatre: $138,712 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetA Call to Conscience: $136,300 over 7y, 17% of budgetMid America Dance Company: $130,402 over 7y, 25% of budgetLandmarks Association of St Louis Inc: $127,290 over 6y, 14% of budgetPianos for People: $126,103 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetThe Kranzberg Arts Foundation: $125,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSt Louis Artists Guild: $123,365 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetHeal's Center for the Arts: $122,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetCentral Print: $118,963 over 6y, 36% of budgetSt Lou Fringe: $118,613 over 7y, 17% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

St Louis Community FoundationMO102× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council · Edward Jones Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Centene Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · World Wide Technology Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable 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 Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission

How much does Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission give?
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission reported 166 itemized grants totaling $8,234,270, out of $10,247,052 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 180 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (92%), Education (2%), Community Improvement (1%).
Who are Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ($1.8M), Contemporary Art Museum St Louis ($1.2M), The Sheldon Arts Foundation ($1.1M).
Does Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation, The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission based?
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission 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 285 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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