Missouri · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC
FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,030 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $698k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Friends of the Springfield Art Museum Inc does
Mission
Developing and providing financial support, and encouraging the development of financial support, for the springfield art museum of the city of springfield, missouri, and of its artistic and educational mission, and its public building and public works needs, and the unmet or underfunded financial needs of the springfield art museum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided funding for the operation of the springfield art museum and support of related programs and physical expansion.
$2,730,778 spentof which $2,619,820 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,730,778.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.2M to $4.2M (−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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Sonya Wise
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11 → $135k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC’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
FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 74% — 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
82% of FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,030 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $390,030 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC 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 2022–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing