Missouri · Nonprofit
CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION
CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,241,141 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($3,881,557). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Charlotte Street Foundation does
Mission
Csf identifies the needs and fuels the evolution of an ever-changing multi-disciplinary arts ecosystem, acting as its primary provocateur. We cultivate the contemporary, the exceptional, and the unexpected in the practice of artists working in and engaging with the kansas city art community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Studio residency program - to support artists with one year studio residencies (renewable for up to two years) and professional development programming
$94,125 spent11% of program spendingRocket grants program: to provide grants supporting innovative, experimental,artist-driven projects that are developed outside traditional arts venues and occur within an 80-mile radius of kansas city.
$122,601 spentof which $60,000 as grants14% of program spendingPublic programs: to foster the creation and presentation of innovative, risk-taking contemporary arts programming that nurtures the work of outstanding generative artists of all disciplines and adds value to the cultural ecosystem of the kansas city region.
$275,729 spentof which $211,125 as grants31% of program spendingAwards: multiple unrestricted cash grants in recognition of artistic achievement and continued artistic development in the areas of visual arts and generative performance arts. Curator in residence: engage emerging curators from around the country with the kansas city region and its artists. Artboards: commissioned public art installation of double-sided billboards in the crossroads neighborhood of kansas city. Sponsored by mobank.
$384,782 spent44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $877,237.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.8M to $8.0M (+187%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 13% · 2023 6% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $174k → $362k.
5 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 19% · 2021 19% · 2022 21% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
37% of CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
54% of CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.3M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $345k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$345k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION?
- CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,241,141 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($3,881,557). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $7,241,141 in grants to CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,881,557 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing