Missouri · Nonprofit
GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,030 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($75,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $887k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $297k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What George a Spiva Center for the Arts does
Mission
Spiva center for the arts remains dedicated to our mission of celebrating the creative experience through exhibitions, education, and community outreach. Our vision is to ensure that the arts are accessible to all-regardless of age, background, or ability-while serving as a cultural anchor for our region. Through innovative programming, impactful education, and dynamic exhibitions, we strive to nurture creativity, foster inclusivity, and contribute to the vitality of the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education & outreach: education and outreach are central to spiva's mission of making the arts accessible and engaging for all. In 2024, spiva offered a wide variety of visual arts classes, workshops, and camps for children, teens, adults, and seniors. Our summer art camps remained a vital creative outlet for area youth, while weekly classes supported artists of all skill levels year-round. The third-grade collaborative continued to bring over 1700 area third grade students to spiva where many of them experienced an art gallery for the first time. They learned about art, made art, and installed a collaborative exhibit. Spiva also expanded its outreach initiatives to bring high-quality art experiences directly into schools, non-profits, community centers, and more-especially in underserved and rural areas. These efforts included external art programming, art in community gathering spaces, and collaborative projects with educators to integrate arts into classroom learning. Outreach partnerships helped reach new audiences and provided opportunities for creative expression beyond the walls of the center. Scholarships and sponsorships ensured that no student was turned away due to…
$26,911 spent$73,862 earned by the program7% of program spendingExhibits: spiva presented 18 exhibitions in 2025, featuring a mix of regional, national, and international artists across multiple gallery spaces. Highlights included major solo and group exhibitions, traveling shows, and juried competitions. Our exhibitions spanned a wide range of mediums and themes, reflecting our commitment to artistic excellence, cultural diversity, and creative exploration. Interpretive materials, docent-led tours, and digital resources enriched the visitor experience and deepened engagement. Many exhibitions were paired with educational and public programming to encourage dialogue and connection between artists and audiences. Spiva's galleries remained vibrant spaces for cultural exchange and artistic discovery.
$42,792 spent$117,539 earned by the program12% of program spendingPrograms & events: spiva center for the arts offers a dynamic lineup of programs and events that engage the community, celebrate creativity, and expand access to the arts. Signature events such as the annual membership show, art on tap, and spiva in bloom bring people together around shared cultural experiences and help foster a vibrant, inclusive arts community. In 2025, spiva also hosted artist receptions, public lectures, and collaborative events with local organizations that highlighted regional talent and encouraged dialogue through the arts. These efforts support spiva's mission to make the arts accessible and meaningful for people of all ages and backgrounds. Special attention was given to removing barriers to participation, with several events offered free or at low cost to ensure broad community access.
$296,531 spent$369,521 earned by the program81% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $366,234.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+42%).
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.
55% of GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS’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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $22k → $61k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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: $92k 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 GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS’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
GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
57% 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 GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 44% · 2019 62% · 2020 47% · 2021 35% · 2022 44% · 2023 41% — 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
67% of GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
73% of GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k 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
GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,030 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($75,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $297,030 in grants to GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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