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KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC

KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,261 to it, the largest being THEATER LEAGUE INC ($105,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$297k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$189k
Net assets
$45k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Kc Fringe Festival Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to attract diverse people, nuture artists, and strengthen kansas city economically by producing cultural, education, accessible, and affordable events that connect audiences, artists, businesses, and civic organizations. The kc fringe festival fosters an inclusive arts community, provides opportunities for artists, from emerging to established, to share their work, and celebrates artistic expression.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Kc fringe festival was founded in 2006 and has produced a festival every year. Until 2019, festival results were outlined in kc creates inc. The 2020 and 2021 festivals were the first virtual festivals and the first two years under this ein. The 2022 festival returned to a live format combined with some virtual activities

    $280,925 spent$168,458 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Kc fringe festival offers workshops to artists to further their development as performing artists. The workshops are included in what we name "kc fringe presents

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $280,925.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($77k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 100 ($15k)2021 Revenue 342 ($263k) Expenses 222 ($140k) Net assets 1701 ($254k)2022 Revenue 427 ($329k) Expenses 545 ($345k) Net assets 817 ($122k)2023 Revenue 301 ($232k) Expenses 462 ($292k) Net assets 414 ($62k)2024 Revenue 379 ($292k) Expenses 451 ($285k) Net assets 465 ($69k)2025 Revenue 386 ($297k) Expenses 508 ($321k) Net assets 303 ($45k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (386)Expenses (508)Net assets (303)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $32k to $268k (+732%).

$32k
$268k
$123k
$71k
$81k
$57k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 71% · 2022 44% · 2023 0% · 2024 24% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’20
$123k
’21
−$16k
’22
−$60k
’23
$7k
’24
−$24k
’25
2.1
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

20212022202320242025
Listed97877
Joined·+2+4+1+0
No longer listed·4320
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $48k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 FRINGE FESTIVAL 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

KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 FRINGE FESTIVAL INC.

55%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 40% · 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

100% of KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like KC FRINGE FESTIVAL 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 2%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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 KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC: 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 FRINGE FESTIVAL INC?
KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,261 to it, the largest being THEATER LEAGUE INC ($105,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $189,261 in grants to KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC?
THEATER LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KC FRINGE FESTIVAL 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.

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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing