Missouri · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,360,815 to it, the largest being MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,480,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $952k
What Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City does
Mission
The mission of the arts council of metropolitan kansas city (dba artskc - regional arts council) is to advance lives through the arts. It does this through key initiatives that support our work: we bring together people, resources and ideas, we imagine, and we lead.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Promote the arts for their individual, community, and economic benefits.1. Community resources: artskc provides community resources and connecting and convening opportunities for the arts community. These include leadership networking discussions, hosting first friday events, opportunities to participate at local arts festivals and other arts-related activities. During the covid-19 pandemic, artskc provided virtual meetings to over 1,000 participants on covid-19 relevant topics and specific resources. Post pandemic, it is continuing and furthering its efforts as a thought leader for the region. (continued on schedule o)promote the arts for their individual, community, and economic benefits. (continued)2. Cultural portal for the arts, now known as artskcgo.com: work began in fiscal year 2016 to launch a comprehensive cultural event calendar and resource directories that provide an easier mechanism for artists and arts organizations to promote their respective arts offerings as well as for arts patrons to access information on upcoming events. Artskcgo.com was launched in 2017. This portal is a well-used resource to the arts community this platform serves over 1,000 arts…
$1,264,863 spent58% of program spendingSupport artists and arts agencies with capacity building programs and grants.1. Artskc fund, also known as the grant-making program: this grant-making program provides grants and artist awards to arts organizations, arts education organizations, arts programs and individual artists. Funds are received through workplace giving campaigns, individuals, businesses, foundations, municipalities and civic organizations. In fiscal year 2017, grants to support arts education efforts were added. More than $7.9 million has been invested in grant-making since the program's inception in 2007. New grant categories were developed in fiscal year 2022 and launched in fiscal year 2023. (continued on schedule o)support artists and arts agencies with capacity building programs and grants. (continued)there are now 5 grant categories and in fiscal year 2025, granted out $440,800 in grants.2. Mentorship services for arts organizations and artists: artskc provides one-on-one direct assistance to arts organizations and artists on how to seek grant funding and in making the arts community aware of upcoming arts grant opportunities. 3. Now showing: close to 50 companies support the now showing program where…
$545,375 spentof which $324,987 as grants25% of program spendingAdvocate for the arts by educating the community, building relationships with government officials, and supporting the development of public funding for the arts. 1. Advocacy overall: this strategic initiative has been a priority of artskc since 2015, but our most effective impact has been in fiscal years 2021 through 2024. With the leadership of an expert and influential advocacy committee, chaired by strong board members and coupled with countless hours of outreach by the artskc staff and volunteers, artskc has achieved much since 2015. A formal advocacy agenda has been developed for six full years with the position that the arts contribute toward inclusive prosperity in workforce development, entrepreneurship, and affordable housing. (continued on schedule o)advocate for the arts by educating the community, building relationships with government officials, and supporting the development of public funding for the arts. (continued)in fiscal year 2019 and fiscal year 2020, artskc partnered with regional agencies to elevate the importance of the design and integration of public art in the kci plans. In fiscal years 2021 through 2024, it has worked with key leaders in one of its key…
$366,802 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,177,040.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $1.1M (−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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 7% · 2023 18% · 2024 23% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Dana Knapp
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $91k → $417k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $701k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Kansas City Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY raised.
From the IRS filings of METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY’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
METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 35% · 2020 37% · 2021 52% · 2022 44% · 2023 86% — growing more concentrated.
“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
39% of METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
86% of METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $356k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $290k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$290k
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 METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY?
- METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,360,815 to it, the largest being MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,480,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,360,815 in grants to METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY?
- MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,480,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY 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.
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 24 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