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REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,998 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$15M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$107k
Net assets
$8.0M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission does

Mission

As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st. Louis, the regional arts commission leverages the power of creativity to strengthen and enrich our community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The commission receives, as contributions, 4/15 of the total revenue derived from the st. Louis city and county hotel/motel sales tax. The commission distributes this revenue by funding or making grants to not-for-profit organizations and individual artists for activities in st. Louis city and county. The commission makes it possible for other institutions to continue to perform and foster art activities. See schedule I for grant payments. The commission makes grants based on completed applications which include the following areas: 1) artistic merit 4) audience development 2) community/national impact 5) cultural tourism 3) effective/accountable management see schedule o for continued program service accomplishments.in addition, the grantees make presentations to the commission and promote their activities. The commission reviews all aspects of the organization before approving grants.

    $12,663,358 spentof which $10,247,052 as grants$2,600 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,663,358.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.5M) Expenses 100 ($6.1M) Net assets 100 ($4.4M)2018 Revenue 87 ($6.5M) Expenses 109 ($6.6M) Net assets 86 ($3.7M)2019 Revenue 93 ($7.0M) Expenses 117 ($7.1M) Net assets 83 ($3.6M)2020 Revenue 40 ($3.0M) Expenses 71 ($4.3M) Net assets 55 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 60 ($4.5M) Expenses 52 ($3.1M) Net assets 87 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 95 ($7.2M) Expenses 60 ($3.6M) Net assets 169 ($7.4M)2023 Revenue 152 ($11M) Expenses 205 ($12M) Net assets 146 ($6.4M)2024 Revenue 199 ($15M) Expenses 222 ($13M) Net assets 182 ($8.0M)
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Revenue (199)Expenses (222)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $7.7M to $14M (+77%).

$7.5M
$6.6M
$6.5M
$4.3M
$5.1M
$7.7M
$14M
$9.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 85% · 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 812 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
’17
−$111k
’18
−$112k
’19
−$1.2M
’20
$1.4M
’21
$3.6M
’22
−$983k
’23
$1.5M
’24
4.3
months of
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

Vanessa Cooksey

President & CEO

Board chair

Rosalind Johnson

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1817181817192018
Joined·+4+3+3+4+3+5+1
No longer listed·5235143
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION’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

REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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

100% 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 REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Loop East Community Improvement District · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION?
REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,998 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $106,998 in grants to REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.
Who is the largest funder of REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION?
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION 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 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