Missouri · Nonprofit
KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION
KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,000 to it, the largest being Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation ($37,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Kirkwood Arts Foundation does
Mission
The foundation's purpose is to promote appreciation and access to arts (painting, sculpture, musical performances, support for the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center) in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
A sculpture from Andrea Schwartz Gallery donated to the City of Kirkwood for public display
$15,000 spent39% of program spendingMusical performances by local musicians - 8 total
$23,142 spent61% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,142.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $106k to $31k (−71%).
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.
100% of KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION’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
KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION
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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION: 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 KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION?
- KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,000 to it, the largest being Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation ($37,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $52,000 in grants to KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION?
- Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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