Missouri · Nonprofit
Connect2Culture
Connect2Culture (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,798,332 to it, the largest being FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM ($1,732,835). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $831k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $575k
What Connect2Culture does
Mission
Connect2Culture strives to enrich the region by "igniting a passion for the arts, culture, and entertainment" as Joplin's community arts agency and a presenter of exceptional performances. See Schedule O for more information.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Connect2Culture was incorporated in 2010 to enhance the community through arts, culture, and entertainment. Since its founding, the organization has worked to grow and strengthen the regional arts ecosystem through advocacy, collaboration, and public programming. In 2013, Connect2Culture became Joplin's designated community arts agency, supporting and promoting local arts and cultural organizations. In 2016, Connect2Culture expanded its role to include presenting performing arts programming for the region. See Schedule O for additional program and mission information.
$673,271 spent$247,961 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $673,271.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.2M to $451k (−89%).
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 2% · 2019 0% · 2024 9% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Connect2Culture’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Emily Frankoski
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $7k → $224k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $152k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Connect2Culture raised.
From the IRS filings of Connect2Culture’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
Connect2Culture leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 Connect2Culture.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 62% · 2019 87% · 2020 63% · 2021 46% · 2022 38% · 2023 49% — 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
35% of Connect2Culture's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
90% of Connect2Culture's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k 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
Connect2Culture runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Connect2Culture receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 Connect2Culture
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
31%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Harry M Cornell Arts & Entertainment Complex · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Connect2Culture: 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 Connect2Culture?
- Connect2Culture (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,798,332 to it, the largest being FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM ($1,732,835). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Connect2Culture have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,798,332 in grants to Connect2Culture, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Connect2Culture?
- FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM is the largest funder on record, with $1,732,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connect2Culture 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 24 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