Missouri · Nonprofit
KC Clay Guild
KC Clay Guild (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,613 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($111,978). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $216k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What KC Clay Guild does
Mission
MISSION To provide a supportive environment in which the clay community can meet share knowledge and experience promote public awareness of the ceramic
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Special programs and events including 1 weekend with attendance of more than 200 people introducing participants to the ceramic art of raku 2 hosted the teabowl national show open to artists throughout the country 3 hosted the holiday sale connecting more than 40 ceramic artists throughout kansas city with patrons and 4 hosted the spring sale connecting more than 40 ceramic artists throughout kansas city with patrons.
$58,501 spent$75,516 earned by the program29% of program spendingClay classes taught to adults and classes taught to children. The guild provides educational and technical assistance year round adult clay classes 5 days a week educating over 300 individuals in the ceramic arts year round childrens clay classes 1 day a week educating over 50 children in the ceramic arts sponsor three ceramic artists in residence
$85,084 spent$193,423 earned by the program43% of program spendingStudio and equipment rental sale of clay supplies and tools: the guild provides studio space and equipment for members to use in the production of clay wares.
$27,445 spent$143,204 earned by the program14% of program spendingProgramming such as private parties and events and workshops
$13,195 spent$15,309 earned by the program7% of program spendingOn the move and other unpaid programming
$14,700 spent7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $198,925.
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 2024 to 2025, from $763k to $2.4M (+219%).
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: 2021 3% · 2022 9% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of KC Clay Guild’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $62k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 KC Clay Guild’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
KC Clay Guild leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 KC Clay Guild.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 53% — 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
75% of KC Clay Guild's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 64% 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
KC Clay Guild draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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
KC Clay Guild has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KC Clay Guild
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
12% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KC Clay Guild: 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 KC Clay Guild?
- KC Clay Guild (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,613 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($111,978). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KC Clay Guild have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $215,613 in grants to KC Clay Guild, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KC Clay Guild?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $111,978 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KC Clay Guild 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 11 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