· Public charity
Springfield Regional Arts Council
To transform lives and enrich our community through the arts.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $183,916 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $228,695 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,779 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| SCULPTURE WALK SPRINGFIELD | $20,000 |
| MOXIE CINEMA | $20,000 |
| OZARKS LYRIC OPERA | $20,000 |
| KSMU | $20,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF SPRINGFIE | $10,000 |
| SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| LIVING LANDS ART COLLECTIVE | $9,880 |
| PLOTLINE | $7,528 |
| SPRINGFIELD DANCE ALLIANCE | $7,000 |
| QUEEN CITY CHORALE COMMUNITY ASSOCI | $7,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD CONTEMPORARY THEATRE | $6,508 |
| SISTER CITIES ASSOCATION OF SPRINGF | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of your 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 +68% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- SWSCULPTURE WALK SPRINGFIELD2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +257%
- DSDowntown Springfield Community Cinema Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue 0%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue -23%
Funded once
- KKSMUone grant, 2024 · $20k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- SCSPRINGFIELD CHAMBER CHORUSone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
To bring our community and the performing arts together. We strive to provide central Illinois with quality theatre, learning opportunities, and a creative outlet for live theatrical arts.
Volunteer Community Theater. We produce around 4 plays a year without paid personal. We enrich our community with the performing arts.
Community theatre
Support of municipal art museum.
Organize music and sustainability festivals for the public , the proceeds from which will benefit local environmental organizations
The mission of the springfield symphony orchestra is to enrich the lives of the people in springfield and the surrounding region by presenting quality performances of symphonic music and providing excellent education programs.
None
A visual arts organization who promotes, supports and provides educational opportunities for Springfield, IL, and maintains the Edwards Place House Museum.
To enrich the community by promoting and supporting all art forms and providing creative opportunities to participate in and enjoy the arts.
To build a better community by sharing the performing arts with all citizens of Springfield, Clark County, and surrounding region.
Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts
To consistently deliver high quality professional entertainment for all the citizens of western massachusetts thereby enhancing the quality of each life, increasing awareness and patronage of the performing arts, and actively contributing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springfield Little Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sculpture Walk Springfield. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 SCULPTURE WALK SPRINGFIELD ↗
- Who funds Downtown Springfield Community Cinema Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Springfield Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD CHAMBER CHORUS ↗
- Who funds UNITE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Hatch Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Meek Charitable Trust · Musgrave Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Forvis Mazars Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Springfield Regional Arts 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.
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.