Missouri · Nonprofit
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Missouri) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,713,039 to it, the largest being THE CRAWFORD TAYLOR FOUNDATION ($32,967,391). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Norman J Stupp Foundationshared funders
- The O'Shaughnessy Family Foundationportfolio match
- Pershing Place Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 27% · 2018 52% · 2019 23% · 2020 41% · 2021 46% · 2022 62% · 2023 54% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $258k → $1.1M.
10 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $3.1M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Louis Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY raised.
From the IRS filings of MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 funders by total. 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
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 94% · 2019 98% · 2020 33% · 2021 33% · 2022 18% · 2023 19% — 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
52% of MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
97% of MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 114 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Norman J Stupp Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
- The O'Shaughnessy Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pershing Place Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America250org Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pott Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
- The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospitalshared fundersMO · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- Boniface Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Councilshared fundersMO · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcareshared fundersMO · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- Youthbridge Community Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 110 organizations that share your funders
- East Missouri Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Dennis M Jones Family Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.1M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$791k
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 MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Perpetual Trusts (12) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Missouri) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,713,039 to it, the largest being THE CRAWFORD TAYLOR FOUNDATION ($32,967,391). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $44,713,039 in grants to MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- THE CRAWFORD TAYLOR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,967,391 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 114funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing