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Springfield Regional Arts Council

To transform lives and enrich our community through the arts.

$229k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Itemized grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$184k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$288kEducation$20kYouth Development$10kCommunity Improvement$9kInternational$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sculpture Walk Springfield$40,000217%
Downtown Springfield Community Cinema Inc$40,00026%
Springfield Regional Opera Inc$40,00029%
Friends of the Springfield Art Museum Inc$40,00023%
Missouri State University Foundation$20,00010%
American Indian Center of Springfield Missouri$20,0002n/a
Plotline$14,1312n/a
Unite of Southwest Missouri Inc$10,00019%
Springfield Little Theatre Inc$10,00010%
Springfield Symphony Association$10,00011%
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All grantees of Springfield Regional Arts Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sculpture Walk Springfield$40,000217%
Downtown Springfield Community Cinema Inc$40,00026%
Springfield Regional Opera Inc$40,00029%
Friends of the Springfield Art Museum Inc$40,00023%
Missouri State University Foundation$20,00010%
American Indian Center of Springfield Missouri$20,0002n/a
Plotline$14,1312n/a
Unite of Southwest Missouri Inc$10,00019%
Springfield Little Theatre Inc$10,00010%
Springfield Symphony Association$10,00011%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield Inc$10,00010%
George a Spiva Center for the Arts$10,00011%
Springfield Chamber Chorus$10,0001n/a
Living Lands Art Collective$9,8801n/a
Nixa Downtown Revitalization Committee$8,7971n/a
Missouri Philharmonic Partners$7,5001n/a
Springfield Dance Alliance$7,0001n/a
Queen City Chorale Community Association$7,0001n/a
Springfield Contemporary Theatre Inc$6,50812%
Sister Cities Association of Springfield Missouri$6,00013%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Springfield Regional Arts Council supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSculpture Walk Springfield: $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetDowntown Springfield Community Cinema Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSpringfield Regional Opera Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetFriends of the Springfield Art Museum Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMissouri State University Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnite of Southwest Missouri Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSpringfield Little Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpringfield Symphony Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Springfield Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorge a Spiva Center for the Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSpringfield Contemporary Theatre Inc: $6,508 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSister Cities Association of Springfield Missouri: $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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 12.

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.

Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO29.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Springfield Regional Arts Council

How much does Springfield Regional Arts Council give?
Springfield Regional Arts Council reported 15 itemized grants totaling $183,916, out of $228,695 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Springfield Regional Arts Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Education (6%), Youth Development (3%).
Who are Springfield Regional Arts Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Sculpture Walk Springfield ($40k), Downtown Springfield Community Cinema Inc ($40k), Springfield Regional Opera Inc ($40k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Springfield Regional Arts Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc, Hatch Foundation, Arvest Foundation.
Where is Springfield Regional Arts Council based?
Springfield Regional Arts Council 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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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