Missouri · Nonprofit
FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA
FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,326 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $594k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What French Colonial America does
Mission
To preserve, promote and celebrate French Colonial America.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our organization offers historic house tours, exhibits and public programs that illuastrate and teach about the history of French Colonial America and French "Creole" culture, particularly in Upper Louisiana, as it is represented through the story of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. Our programs introduce audiences of diverse backgrounds and age levels to the distinctive French vertical timber architecture, imperial Spanish rule from the 1760s to 1800, daily life in the colonial era, and the development of a unique Creole culture in this region, which grew from the interaction of the colonists of French descent with Native Americans, Africans, and other groups. In 2024, our museum campus, The Centre for French Colonial Life, served a total of 13,164 visitors, which was 4,651 less than the previous year. The decrease was to a great extent due to the site no longer hosting the community's Pecan festival in November. This large festival had been turned over to the downtown merchants' group because we had reduced the size of our staff and could no longer be responsible for hosting the event. While this change did reduce our overall attendance numbers,…
$313,936 spent$35,735 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $313,936.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $2.5M (+21%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 17% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA’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. 2 of the last 5 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
Geoff Giglierano
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $53k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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: $288k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Society of Colonial Dames). These are real filings, and they are not money FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA’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
FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 48% — 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
93% of FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA: 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 FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA?
- FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,326 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $161,326 in grants to FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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