Missouri · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $261k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16
- Net assets
- $11k
What Independence Square Main Street Corporation does
Mission
To promote an attractive and financially stable downtown while preserving our historic resources and enriching the community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Square lighting - isa coordinates over one mile of led holiday lights throughout the historic district. Participating places make space throughout the season and draw thousands to events, shopping, etc
$53,273 spent21% of program spendingIndependence roots music festival - highlights the musical heritage of the independence area and the musicians who perform this music today. Performances from local well-respected musicians play traditional music styles such as country, folk, blues and gospel genres. The festival takes place on the historic bingham-waggoner estate in independence.
$14,408 spent$18,116 earned by the program6% of program spendingLiving history - every saturday june through august from 10am-2pm we sponsor free living history tours. Guests take a mule-drawn covered wagon ride through out historic downtown with first-person interpreters who tell the origin stories of settlers, slaves, and native americans while dressed in period clothing.
$10,151 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$177,381 spent70% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $255,213.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $12k to $36k (+195%).
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: 2022 38% · 2023 59% · 2024 75% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jeffrey S Rogers
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 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
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION: 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 INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION?
- INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16 in grants to INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE SQUARE MAIN STREET CORPORATION 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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