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.

Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission

Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission

Q: 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%).

Q: 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).

Q: Does Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st.

$10M

Granted FY2024still arriving

166

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$600k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2024 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 166 grants below total $8,234,270, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,247,052 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,012,782 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$27M · 186 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

186 repeat relationships: 126 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

186

Total granted

$27M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

Still filing today

80%

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 DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

SL
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +63%
CA
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +36%
TS
THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +34%

Funded once

WL
WERQFEST LLC
one grant, 2023 · $100k
TB
THE BUTLER GROUP
one grant, 2023 · $75k
MA
Mid-America Arts Alliance
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -55%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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.

Arts & Culture

Greater St Louis Artists

To bring art to the public and support art education

Arts & Culture

Edwardsville Opera Festival

Our mission is to develop an arts organization for the benefit of Edwardsville, IL and the St. Louis Metro-East community with the goals of providing musical excellence, educational outreach, community development, an artistic platform and…

Arts & Culture

Constellation Performing Arts

Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.

Arts & Culture

Kansas City Public Theatre

Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public This mission is carried out in two activities first by producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works…

Arts & Culture

Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture

Chamber Opera of Chicago

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State of the Arts Productions

Arts & Culture

Southwest Washington Center for the Arts

Philanthropy

Confluence Chamber Orchestra

Confluence Chamber Orchestra is a multi generational amateur string orchestra that provides free educational concerts in the Saint Louis area.

Arts & Culture

Connect2Culture

Connect2Culture strives to enrich the region by "igniting a passion for the arts, culture, and entertainment" as Joplin's community arts agency and a presenter of exceptional performances. See Schedule O for more information.

Arts & Culture

Kc Fringe Festival Inc

Our mission is to attract diverse people, nuture artists, and strengthen kansas city economically by producing cultural, education, accessible, and affordable events that connect audiences, artists, businesses, and civic organizations. the…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Dance Theatre; the most unlike its peers is Thomas Dunn Memorials. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

214 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 214 of the 285 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

201/214

Grantees still filing

123/214

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$20,178,141Other$6,909,036Education$483,322Civil Rights$335,916Community Improvement$273,000Human Services$260,500Philanthropy$247,098

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home