Missouri · Nonprofit
PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION
PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,000 to it, the largest being ELLSWORTH KELLY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $114M
What Pulitzer Arts Foundation does
Program
The Pulitzer Arts Foundation is an art museum devoted to presenting the art of today and works from the past within a global context. Located in the heart of st. Louis's grand center arts district for more than 20 years, the pulitzer is a cultural and civic asset to the community and a popular destination for visitors from around the world. Free and open to all, the museum hosts world-class art exhibitions and an array of free programs, ranging from talks to concerts, literary readings, dance, performances, and wellness workshops. In addition, the museum, the pulitzer's campus includes park-like - a garden of native plants, the spring church - an open air stone pavilion, and the tree grove - a shady picnic spot. The pulitzer served 16,551 visitors in 2024. It is open to the public thursday through sunday - 31 hours per week. More information about the museum and its work is available on the Pulitzer Arts Foundation's website.
$5,132,692 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2023 to 2024, from $118M to $114M (−3%).
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
Cara Starke
Executive director
Board chair
Emily R Pulitzer
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION’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
PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION: 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 PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION?
- PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,000 to it, the largest being ELLSWORTH KELLY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $62,000 in grants to PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION?
- ELLSWORTH KELLY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION 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 3 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