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Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$13MEducation$1.3MPhilanthropy$261kHealth$10kInternational$10kOther$2.0M
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $827k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY$300,000
LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC$200,000
LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC$200,000
LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC$200,000
PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY DBA FOLLY THEATER$178,677
KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE$125,000
WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE (HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES)$100,000
NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION$100,000
KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$80,000
KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE$65,000
KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION$60,000
NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION$50,000
UNICORN THEATRE$50,000
KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC$50,000
LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC$50,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE (HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES): $110k → 8%GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - STERN DONOR-ADVISED FUND: $200k → 15%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE (HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES): $100k → 8%PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY DBA FOLLY THEATER: $179k → 15%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE (HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES): $100k → 8%PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY DBA FOLLY THEATER: $100k → 15%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE (HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES): $100k → 8%PARK UNIVERSITY: $95k → 8%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE (HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES): $100k → 8%PARK UNIVERSITY: $85k → 8%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE (HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES): $100k → 8%STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $150k → 15%KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $125k → 15%NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $100k → 15%NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $98k → 15%KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $83k → 15%KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $100k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - KCUR RADIO: $100k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - KCUR RADIO: $100k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $300k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $300k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $300k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $285k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $285k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $285k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $200k → 15%KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $138k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $125k → 15%KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $100k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 60 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
15

Total granted

$16M
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+12%

Still filing today

83%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther

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

  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +76%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +21%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $908k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • US
    UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +12%
  • TR
    THE RABBIT HOLE KCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +111%
  • DG
    DO GOOD PRODUCTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue ×23

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.

1
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
2
Kansas City Chamber Orchestra Inc

The performance of fine classical music in both public and education outreach program concerts, utilizing talented local musicians, and frequently in partnership with other arts and community organizations.

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3
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
4
Harriman-Jewell Series

To bring the best of the performing arts to the Kansas City community.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Lee's Summit Symphony Orchestra

The mission of the lees summit symphony orchestra is to provide excellent musical experiences that enhance the quality of life for the community.

Arts & Culture
7
Know Theatre of Cincinnati

Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…

Arts & Culture
8
Kirkland Center of the Performing Arts Dba Kirkland Performance Center

Kpc provides a gathering place where people come together to express themselves creatively, exchange ideas, share culture and connect with one another

Arts & Culture
9
Opera Kansas

Providing innovative works of one act and chamber operas for the public at large, and free or low cost performances for schools and nursing homes.

Arts & Culture
10
Kansas City Civic Orchestra

The kansas city civic orchestra, founded in 1959 by a group of local musicians to give themselves and other musicians an opportunity to perform in an orchestra, to provide community enrichment, interaction, and experience with symphonic…

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11
Omaha Performing Arts Society

The mission of Omaha Performing Arts is to enrich the community through presentation of the highest quality arts and entertainment experiences; education and community engagement programs; and stewardship of three world-class venues - the…

Arts & Culture
12
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wylliams-Henry Productions. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPrivate Membership ClubsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Animal Shelter and Rescue S…Vulnerable Populations Supp…Crisis Shelter & Support Se…Charter Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr12%5%5–10yr15%20%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr30%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr12%2%5–10yr15%4%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr30%54%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
13%
697/5,275

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.

04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 81 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
47/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC — $4,050,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $2,145,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONYKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $907,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATIONTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $597,640 · Arts & CultureKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $512,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $500,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $424,437 · Arts & Culture+39 more — $3,555,491 · Arts & Culture+39 moreWILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE (HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES) — $645,500 · OtherWILLIAM JEWEL…UMKC FOUNDATION (UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - CONSERVATORY) — $345,500 · OtherUMKC FOUNDATI…UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - KCUR RADIO — $280,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…KANSAS CITY CHORALE — $220,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY C…HEARTLAND MENS CHORUS — $90,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $70,714 · OtherNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER — $69,084 · Other+17 more — $276,000 · Other+17 moreKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE — $781,667 · EducationPARK UNIVERSITY — $352,500 · EducationJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $83,000 · Education+3 more — $41,100 · EducationGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $200,000 · PhilanthropyHeartland Chamber Music LTD — $34,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $27,000 · PhilanthropyMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $10,000 · HealthJAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY LTD — $10,000 · International
Arts & Culture$12,692,568Other$1,996,798Education$1,258,267Philanthropy$261,000Health$10,000International$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC — $4,050,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $2,145,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $907,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE — $781,667 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $597,640 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $512,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $500,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $424,437 over 6y, 10% of budgetPARK UNIVERSITY — $352,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION — $283,500 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetUNICORN THEATRE — $255,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY CHORALE — $220,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetENGLEWOOD ARTS — $220,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE COTERIE INC — $215,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC — $200,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC — $190,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetTHE YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $174,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetArts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City — $160,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY — $128,491 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTHE STUDIOS INC — $120,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $114,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $110,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetOWEN COX DANCE GROUP — $106,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC — $105,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetMUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE — $99,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetMUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC — $97,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetHEARTLAND MENS CHORUS — $90,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $83,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMid-America Arts Alliance — $72,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWylliams-Henry Productions — $70,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER — $69,084 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetBACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC — $63,000 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA — $57,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMERFEST CONCERTS AND-OR RECORDINGS INC — $37,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetENSEMBLE IBERICA INC — $36,500 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetSPINNING TREE THEATRE — $36,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetHeartland Chamber Music LTD — $34,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSpire Chamber Ensemble — $34,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetBLACK REPERTORY THEATRE OF KANSAS CITY — $27,500 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ART IN THE LOOP FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetMESNER PUPPET THEATER — $24,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetART AS MENTORSHIP INC — $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budget
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 LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNICORN THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY CHORALE ↗
  • Who funds ENGLEWOOD ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE COTERIE INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Arts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City ↗
  • Who funds KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDIOS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds OWEN COX DANCE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND MENS CHORUS ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Wylliams-Henry Productions ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗

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.

Muriel McBrien Kauffm…The Francis Family Fo…Greater Kansas City C…Jewish Community Foun…Metropolitan Arts Cou…The H & R Block Found…Copaken Family Founda…The Sunderland Founda…William T Kemper Foun…The Estelle S and Rob…Miller-Mellor Associa…R a Long Foundation 6…
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family FoundationMO103.1× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City · The H & R Block Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation · Miller-Mellor Association · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg

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 Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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: 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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