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The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council

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$64k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$2.2MEducation$18kEnvironment$18kCommunity Improvement$10kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $32,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $63,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,500 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 $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$8,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEAM ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL$12,000
MASON SCHOOL OF ACL$8,400
CONFLUENCE ACADAMIES$6,000
AMES VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS$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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MINDSEYE RADIO: $12k → 16%FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE: $6k → 11%ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $10k → 11%ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $8k → 11%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 28 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
22

Total granted

$2.0M
$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+14%

Still filing today

93%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • OT
    Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
    5× · 2017–2022 · $372k · revenue +150%
  • TS
    THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $182k · revenue +34%
  • JS
    JAZZ ST LOUIS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $106k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BACH SOCIETY OF SAINT LOUISgraduated
    2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +63%
  • RA
    RADIO ARTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -21%
  • TL
    THE LUMINARY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +34%
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
Art St Louis

Art St Louis is a nonprofit community art organization and gallery dedicated to enriching lives through the creative activity of our region's contemporary visual artists. Through exhibition, education, and exchange, we connect and inspire…

Arts & Culture
2
Upstream Theater

Upstream Theater is a professional production company dedicated to bringing a world of theater to St. Louis. We believe that art engages as much as it entertains and that by feeding the senses we feed the soul. Our goal is to move you and…

Arts & Culture
3
St Lou Fringe

To offer everyone the opportunity to put before an audience their works in theater, dance and music.

Arts & Culture
4
St Louis Artists Guild

The St. Louis Artists' Guild ('Guild') inspires art experiences through extraordinary exhibitions, interactive art education, outreach to underserved audiences, and by fostering creativity throughout the community.

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5
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
6
Union Avenue Opera Theatre

The mission of union avenue opera is to provide professional opportunities for gifted, emerging artists and to offer vibrant and affordable opera experiences in original languages to audiences that reflect the breadth and diversity of the…

Arts & Culture
7
Stray Dog Theatre

Stray dog theatre is committed to unleashing the art of theatre, education, and community on saint louis and the surrounding area.

Arts & Culture
8
The St Louis Children's Choirs

Transforming lives through musical excellence. the goal of the st. louis children's choirs is to empower the youth of st. louis through a rich choral program that helps each young singer realize their full potential - as a musician and as…

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9
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
10
Artica

ARTICA is a nonprofit arts organization that provides a platform to celebrate the creative spirit of St. Louis culminating in our annual riverfront festival.

Arts & Culture
11
St Louis Irish Arts

St Louis Irish Arts mission is to promote and preserve traditional Irish music, song and dance with an emphasis over the years of restoring the playing of the Irish instruments and the use of the Irish language.

Arts & Culture
12
Saint Louis Ballet Company

The mission of Saint Louis Ballet is to provide a resident professional ballet company that performs classical and contemporary works of the highest quality for the cultural enrichment and enjoyment of the entire community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Dance Theatre; the most unlike its peers is A Red Circle. 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

54 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
38/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis: $372,350 · Arts & CultureOpera Theatre of Saint LouisTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $310,000 · Arts & CultureTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUISCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $220,675 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTSTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION: $182,350 · Arts & CultureTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATIONJAZZ ST LOUIS: $105,846 · Arts & CultureJAZZ ST LOUISST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $96,350 · Arts & CultureCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $95,350 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $85,000 · Arts & CultureCRAFT ALLIANCE: $67,350 · Arts & Culture+20 more: $348,704 · Arts & Culture+20 moreSTAGES ST LOUIS: $72,350 · OtherSTAGES ST …PRISON PERFORMING ARTS: $21,200 · OtherPRISON PER…FERGUSON-FLORISSANT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18,900 · OtherFERGUSON-F…FAMILY RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $18,200 · OtherFAMILY RES…ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $14,400 · OtherST LOUIS P…THE BACH SOCIETY OF SAINT LOUIS: $12,350 · OtherTHE BACH S…INTERCULTURAL MUSIC INITIATIVE: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherWHO RAISED YOU: $10,000 · OtherThe German St Vincent Orphan Association: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $6,250 · OtherYourwords STL: $18,200 · EducationA RED CIRCLE: $18,200 · EducationSaint Louis Fashion Fund: $15,000 · EducationWebster University: $15,000 · EducationCONFLUENCE ACADEMY: $6,000 · EducationTHE ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $18,200 · Human ServicesMindsEye Radio: $12,350 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesFERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE: $6,250 · Human ServicesRUSTIC ROOTS SANCTUARY CO: $18,200 · EnvironmentJACOBS LADDER MINISTRIES: $18,200 · ReligionCREATIVE REACTION LAB: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$1,883,975Other$203,650Education$72,400Human Services$46,800Environment$18,200Religion$18,200Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $372,350 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $310,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $220,675 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION: $182,350 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetJAZZ ST LOUIS: $105,846 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $96,350 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $95,350 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTAGES ST LOUIS: $72,350 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCRAFT ALLIANCE: $67,350 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $42,504 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSt Louis ArtWorks: $33,200 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBREAD & ROSES MISSOURI: $31,200 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetCINEMA ST LOUIS: $24,850 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSt Louis Black Repertory Company Inc: $22,350 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCIRCUS HARMONY: $22,350 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPIANOS FOR PEOPLE: $22,050 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPRISON PERFORMING ARTS: $21,200 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMETRO THEATER COMPANY: $19,850 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRUSTIC ROOTS SANCTUARY CO: $18,200 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetYourwords STL: $18,200 over 2y, 25% of budgetA RED CIRCLE: $18,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $18,200 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSaint Louis Fashion Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWebster University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BACH SOCIETY OF SAINT LOUIS: $12,350 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRADIO ARTS FOUNDATION: $12,350 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LUMINARY INC: $12,350 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTENNESSEE WILLIAMS FESTIVAL ST LOUIS: $12,350 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSAINT LOUIS STORY STITCHERS ARTIST COLLECTIVE: $12,350 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMindsEye Radio: $12,350 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE: $12,350 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL BLUES MUSEUM: $12,350 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRAGTAG FILM SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPACK DANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe German St Vincent Orphan Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE: $6,250 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHEAL'S CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,250 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCONFLUENCE ACADEMY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Regional Cultural and…St Louis Community Fo…Trio Foundation of St…Edward Jones Foundati…Employees Community F…St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Leon and Mary Strauss…The Kranzberg Family …Commerce Bancshares F…Centene FoundationMissouri Humanities C…
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development CommissionMO81× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Centene Foundation · Missouri Humanities Council

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 The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.

    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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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