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Missouri Main Street Connection Inc
Missouri Main Street Connection Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $637,480 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($410,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $637k
- Net assets
- $448k
What Missouri Main Street Connection Inc does
Mission
Missouri Main Street Connection is the leading statewide nonprofit organization devoted to preservation-based economic development. Through the Main Street America movement and our partners, we empower community revitalization by celebrating, supporting, and sustaining Missouri historic commercial districts in both rural and urban settings.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Advancement: Missouri Main Street is continually working with new communities to teach them the principles of Main Street and bring them into our network. We assess community interest through the hosting of workshops that specifically highlight how Main Street can help their community revitalization efforts. Selected new communities are provided a slate of programming designed to establish their Main Street organization and support their success in its implementation. These services address aspects covering all four points of the Main Street Approach including a town hall meeting to gather community input and support, board of director training, survey work and market analysis, strategy development and implementation training, and specialized services for each community.
$796,252 spent54% of program spendingConference: Missouri Main Street Connection, Inc. (MMSC) hosts an annual state conference to educate Missouri communities. The conference provided focus on the importance of people, preservation, and places in community development and revitalization. The conference brings together historic preservation, community revitalization, and economic development professionals to learn new techniques and ideas related to the Main Street Approach to revitalization. The three-day conference hosted attendees from across Missouri for education and networking. Proceeds from the conference are utilized by MMSC to provide in-community services directly with the local Main Street non-profit.
$314,536 spent$141,560 earned by the program21% of program spendingWorkshops and Trainings: Training is offered for nominal fees or at no cost to the attendees. Participants in the training include community development groups, local Main Street organizations, preservation groups, city and county officials, specialists in historic preservation of buildings, downtown betterment groups, chambers of commerce, and other groups interested in preservation and revitalization of historic districts. MMSC selected topics for the 2024 workshops and conferences that helped existing groups strengthen their local revitalization programs and help those starting a revitalization program to achieve success quickly. The training in regional workshops focus on the development of revitalization skills for governing boards, staff, and volunteers who support the local revitalization efforts.
$215,431 spent$40,391 earned by the program15% of program spendingCommunity Empower Grant: Missouri Main Street Connection through the Community Empower Grant assisted 18 communities in 2024. This grant program helps communities start a Main Street program and begin building a successful downtown with new investment, businesses, residents, and events celebrating all that makes a downtown the heart of the community. The grant program provides two years of hands-on training and provides "over the shoulder" guidance and encouragement to help build a strong foundation for long-lasting economic vitality for downtown. Other program services included training for local Main Street programs via the virtual Mornings on Main Street webinar series, Lunch and Learn, Doctor is in to address questions, and We Care calls with Main Street Directors from across the state. Program participants gained valuable knowledge to expand the program services and technical training offered by MMSC.
$150,575 spent$262,167 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,476,794.
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.
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 $308k to $769k (+149%).
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: 2020 33% · 2021 28% · 2022 25% · 2023 37% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Missouri Main Street Connection Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $51k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Missouri Main Street Connection 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
Missouri Main Street Connection Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 Missouri Main Street Connection Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 70% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 65% — 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
20% of Missouri Main Street Connection Inc'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
66% of Missouri Main Street Connection Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $217k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k 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.
Against its field
Missouri Main Street Connection Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Missouri Main Street Connection Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.1M
- Department of the Interior$749k
- Department of Commerce$553k
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 Main Street Connection 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Missouri Main Street Connection Inc?
- Missouri Main Street Connection Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $637,480 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($410,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Missouri Main Street Connection Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $637,480 in grants to Missouri Main Street Connection Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Missouri Main Street Connection Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Missouri Main Street Connection 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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