Missouri · Nonprofit
MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION INC
MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,591 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($6,356). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $230k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $764k
What Missouri Press Foundation Inc does
Mission
Providing journalism scholarships and faculty honorariums, conducting journalism seminars, making journalism merit awards, collecting & preserving old printing presses & printing equipment and operating historical museums.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Newspapers in education: this program's purpose is to get printed newspapers into school classrooms, instructing classroom teachers how to use the newspaper as a teaching tool, engaging young students in reading newspapers, promoting civic education, promoting history of missouri and the united states.
$5,733 spent$340 earned by the program7% of program spendingBetter newspaper contest: for more than 60 years, the press association has honored its members annually for their best work in newspaper reporting, editing, photography, design, editorial writing, advertising, community service, general excellence, etc. Newpapers submit contest entries and judging is conducted by a press association's members in another state. Plaques and certificates are presented to the winners during the annual awards luncheon at the missouri press convention in the fall.
$11,981 spent$17,423 earned by the program14% of program spendingPhotojournalism hall of fame: the missouri photojournalism hall of fame endeavors to recognize those people who have made outstanding contributions to missouri photojournalism, and to provide an exhibit venue to showcase these visual reporting pioneers, and the work of current photojournalists. Inductees are recognized for one or more of the following: outstanding photojournalism achievement; long-term photography for a missouri newspaper or other publication or journalism outlet; leadership in education; ethical values and integrity; and contributions to community.
$6,813 spent8% of program spendingOther programs consist of activities to promote the organization's mission as stated below: providing journalism scholarships and faculty honorariums, conducting journalism seminars, making journalism merit awards, collecting & preserving old printing presses & printing equipment and operating historical museums.
$59,522 spentof which $41,658 as grants71% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $84,049.
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.
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 $575k to $718k (+25%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20 → $26.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 PRESS FOUNDATION 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 PRESS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 PRESS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
82% of MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION 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
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Missouri Press Association · exempt
- Missouri Press Service · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION INC?
- MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,591 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($6,356). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $14,591 in grants to MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $6,356 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION 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.
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 4 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