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· Public charity

Springfield Regional Arts Council

To transform lives and enrich our community through the arts.

$229k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $183,916, the rows itemized in this filing. The $228,695 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,779 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KSMU$20,000
SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM$20,000
SCULPTURE WALK SPRINGFIELD$20,000
MOXIE CINEMA$20,000
OZARKS LYRIC OPERA$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
QUEEN CITY CHORALE COMMUNITY ASSOCI$7,000
SPRINGFIELD DANCE ALLIANCE$7,000
SPRINGFIELD CONTEMPORARY THEATRE$6,508
SISTER CITIES ASSOCATION OF SPRINGF$6,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NIXA DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION COMMIT: $9k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF SPRINGFIE: $10k → 15%SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 18%LIVING LANDS ART COLLECTIVE: $10k → 19%AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF SPRINGFIE: $10k → 15%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD: $10k → 15%SPRINGFIELD CHAMBER CHORUS: $10k → 15%SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10k → 15%PLOTLINE: $8k → 15%PLOTLINE: $7k → 15%SPRINGFIELD MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL: $10k → 15%SPRINGFIELD DANCE ALLIANCE: $7k → 15%SPRINGFIELD CONTEMPORARY THEATRE: $7k → 15%SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM: $20k → 15%SCULPTURE WALK SPRINGFIELD: $20k → 15%SCULPTURE WALK SPRINGFIELD: $20k → 15%SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM: $20k → 15%QUEEN CITY CHORALE COMMUNITY ASSOCI: $7k → 15%SISTER CITIES ASSOCATION OF SPRINGF: $6k → 15%KSMU: $20k → 15%KSMU: $20k → 15%OZARKS LYRIC OPERA: $20k → 15%MOXIE CINEMA: $20k → 15%MOXIE CINEMA: $20k → 15%OZARKS LYRIC OPERA: $20k → 15%SPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INC: $10k → 15%MISSOURI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $8k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$194k · 6 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$194k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
0%

Still filing today

67%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • SW
    SCULPTURE WALK SPRINGFIELD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +257%
  • DS
    Downtown Springfield Community Cinema Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • SR
    SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL OPERA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • K
    KSMU
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • UO
    UNITE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.

1
Springfield Theatre Centre

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Springfield Community Players Inc

Volunteer Community Theater. We produce around 4 plays a year without paid personal. We enrich our community with the performing arts.

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3
Springfield Municipal Opera Association

Community theatre

Arts & Culture
4
Southwest Missouri Museum Associates Inc

Support of municipal art museum.

Arts & Culture
5
Earth Day Springfield Festival

Organize music and sustainability festivals for the public , the proceeds from which will benefit local environmental organizations

Environment
6
Springfield Symphony Orchestra Association

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Springfield Ballet Company

None

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8
Springfield Art Association of Edwards Place

A visual arts organization who promotes, supports and provides educational opportunities for Springfield, IL, and maintains the Edwards Place House Museum.

Arts & Culture
9
Springfield Area Arts Council

To enrich the community by promoting and supporting all art forms and providing creative opportunities to participate in and enjoy the arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Springfield Arts Council Inc

To build a better community by sharing the performing arts with all citizens of Springfield, Clark County, and surrounding region.

—
11
Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture
12
Springfield Performing Arts Development Corp

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springfield Little Theatre Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
2/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC: $40,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INCKSMU: $20,000 · OtherKSMUAMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURIPLOTLINE: $14,131 · OtherPLOTLINESpringfield Symphony Association: $10,000 · OtherSpringfield Symphony AssociationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INCLIVING LANDS ART COLLECTIVE: $9,880 · OtherLIVING LANDS ART COLLECTIVENIXA DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION COMMITTEE: $8,797 · OtherMISSOURI PHILHARMONIC PARTNERS: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherSPRINGFIELD DANCE ALLIANCE: $7,000 · OtherQUEEN CITY CHORALE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · OtherSISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI: $6,000 · OtherSCULPTURE WALK SPRINGFIELD: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSCULPTURE WALK SPRINGFIELDDowntown Springfield Community Cinema Inc: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDowntown Springfield Community Cinema IncSPRINGFIELD REGIONAL OPERA INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD REGIONAL OPERA INCUNITE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNITE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI INCSPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INCGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTSSPRINGFIELD CHAMBER CHORUS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD CHAMBER CHORUSSPRINGFIELD CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC: $6,508 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education
Other$167,308Arts & Culture$166,508Education$20,000

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

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
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.

Community Foundation …Hatch FoundationArvest FoundationMeek Charitable TrustMusgrave FoundationLarry P O'Reilly and …Forvis Mazars Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Springfield Regional Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Springfield Regional Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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