Missouri · Nonprofit
MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS
MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,005,450 to it, the largest being THE CRAWFORD TAYLOR FOUNDATION ($11,710,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $42M
- Net assets
- $120M
What Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis does
Mission
The muny is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to enrich lives by producing exceptional musical theatre accessible to all, continuing its remarkable tradition in forest park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The municipal theatre association of st. Louis provided 7 theatrical performances and 1 concert to the general public in an outdoor theater in st. Louis, missouri. During the season, 343,315 people attended 52 performances including 75,539 admitted to the traditional free seats.
$22,459,394 spent$17,048,137 earned by the program89% of program spendingConcessions which provide refreshments and souvenirs for the convenience of theatre patrons.
$2,591,922 spent$2,703,616 earned by the program10% of program spendingPrograms are produced for each performance and funded through the sale of advertising.
$235,156 spent$179,315 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,286,472.
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 2017 to 2018, from $32M to $88M (+173%).
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 26% · 2022 10% · 2023 7% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kwofe Coleman
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $417k → $2.4M.
15 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $17M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Louis Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS raised.
From the IRS filings of MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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
MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 51% · 2019 39% · 2020 16% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 51% — 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
51% of MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
98% of MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: 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 MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS?
- MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,005,450 to it, the largest being THE CRAWFORD TAYLOR FOUNDATION ($11,710,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $42,005,450 in grants to MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS?
- THE CRAWFORD TAYLOR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,710,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 96 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