Missouri · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY
FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,110 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,760). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $763k
What Friends of the Umkc Conservatory does
Mission
Help conservatory students pursue their performing arts and education dreams through scholarships and fellowships; expand public awareness of the important achievements of the conservatory; strengthen partnerships between the conservatory and the kansas city community; and provide members with access to conservatory activities and resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Membership dues/contributions are collected to provide scholarships to students enrolled in the conservatory of music at the university of missouri at kansas city.
$75,489 spentof which $60,000 as grants$47,603 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $75,489.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $508k to $737k (+45%).
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.
35% of FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $9k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 UMKC CONSERVATORY’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 UMKC CONSERVATORY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 UMKC CONSERVATORY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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
FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Curators of the University of Missouri · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY: 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 FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY?
- FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,110 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,760). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $29,110 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,760 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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