Missouri · Nonprofit
PRESSER ARTS CENTER
PRESSER ARTS CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,289 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $615k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Presser Arts Center does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire, entertain, and educate people in the arts by providing the finest venue, productions, and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Camps - presser provides around 40 summer camps at the 900 jefferson location with an enrollment of approx. 300-400 participants. These camps range in cultural arts from music, theatre, cooking, special needs, to visual and aerial arts.
$53,565 spent$48,731 earned by the program16% of program spendingProductions - presser productions employ professional and pre-professional artists as directors, music directors, choreographers and actors. Comprised of some of the best talents pressers offers the highest caliber, cross-disciplinary, live theatre performances for the mid missouri region. Presser provides opportunities for families to eperience engaging theatre together and strives to make these shows accessible to the widest possible demographic. Around 5500 people attend these performances.
$49,605 spent$50,737 earned by the program15% of program spendingPresser provides summer classes, workshops, and professional development in visual and performing arts. Presser also exibits artwork of local and statewide recognized artists in its gallery. Enrollment for the most recent fiscal year was 175 , which includes pre-professional and professional artists. As many as 9 school districts are served at our professional development event, and as many as 40 people in attendence. The arts and aging conference known as the daylighters conference was attended by 42 people. With access as a core value, presser provides opportunities for our aging community to engage in the arts during the daylight hours.
$236,497 spent$197,010 earned by the program70% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $339,667.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.5M to $6.0M (+34%).
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 1% · 2019 23% · 2020 8% · 2022 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of PRESSER ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lois Brace
Exec dir
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $225k → $47k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 PRESSER ARTS CENTER’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
PRESSER ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 89% · 2018 52% · 2019 77% · 2020 56% · 2021 99% · 2022 43% · 2023 89% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of PRESSER ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
54% of PRESSER ARTS CENTER's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
PRESSER ARTS CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PRESSER ARTS CENTER
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRESSER ARTS CENTER: 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 PRESSER ARTS CENTER?
- PRESSER ARTS CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,289 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRESSER ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $615,289 in grants to PRESSER ARTS CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESSER ARTS CENTER?
- JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESSER ARTS CENTER 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 12 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