Missouri · Nonprofit
Columbia Art League
Columbia Art League (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,707 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($110,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $535k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $526k
What Columbia Art League does
Mission
Columbia Art League provides the community with a stimulating environment for experiencing the visual arts through exhibitions, education, appreciation, promotion, and creation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In the main gallery, a changing schedule of 6 shows per year allow both members and non-members to display and sell their artwork. In the smaller side gallery, CAL members artwork is displayed and sold. Artwork in the gallery reflects the artistic voice of the community. Both the themed and non-themed shows feature work by high school students, amateurs, beginners alongside University professors, and experienced and professional artists. For many artists, CALs walls are the first place their work is displayed publicly. Additionally, CAL frequently includes work by elementary school children from its partner in education school.
$140,275 spent$112,745 earned by the program39% of program spendingArt in the Park is the oldest and largest fine arts festival in mid-Missouri. The festival features 110 local, regional, and national visual artists displaying a variety of media including painting, photography, pottery, jewelry, sculpture, and glass. There is no entrance charge to the festival, which is held in a disability-accessible park and is thus open to all socio-economic groups. As well as the artist village, the festival features free art-making activities for children, a venue for displaying local high school artists artworks, roving enterteinment, and a music stage.
$125,210 spent$165,465 earned by the program35% of program spendingArt Education: the Columbia Art League offers a variety of educational activities and experiences designed to foster creativity and encourage artistic awareness. High quality classes are offered to children, teens, and adults. The classes are taught by experienced instructors and professional artists.
$94,827 spent$66,126 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $360,312.
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 2020 to 2021, from $299k to $398k (+33%).
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 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 8% · 2020 29% · 2021 49% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 9% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of Columbia Art League’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Kelsey Hammond
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $34k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Columbia Art League’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Columbia Art League leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 Columbia Art League.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 86% · 2023 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of Columbia Art League's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Columbia Art League holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Columbia Art League
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Columbia Art League: 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 Columbia Art League?
- Columbia Art League (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,707 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($110,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Columbia Art League have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $150,707 in grants to Columbia Art League, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Columbia Art League?
- VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Columbia Art League 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing