Missouri · Nonprofit
SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY
SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY (Missouri) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,332,796 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($280,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $212k
What Saint Louis Ballet Company does
Mission
The mission of Saint Louis Ballet is to provide a resident professional ballet company that performs classical and contemporary works of the highest quality for the cultural enrichment and enjoyment of the entire community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Saint Louis Ballet presents four (4) performing series a year - Three (3) are held at the 1,600-seat Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Missouri in St. Louis: Fall series in October such as Giselle or mixed repertory, The Nutcracker in November and December, and a full-length classic such as Swan Lake, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty in April featuring live music. The Company also presents a Winter contemporary series in February at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center, in celebration of Valentine's Day. In addition, starting in the spring of 2018, the organization added a new contemporary series at The Grandel Theatre in St. Louis each May. The organization has been dedicated to advancing the art of ballet in St. Louis for nearly 40 years. Since 2001, the organization has been led by Gen Horiuchi, former Principal Dancer of New York City Ballet. Saint Louis Ballet serves over 20,000 patrons per year. Our ticket revenue has increased more than 60% in the last five years, demonstrating the community's commitment and interest in the company's performances.
$1,556,173 spent$912,907 earned by the program97% of program spendingSaint Louis Ballet collaborates with Springfield Symphony Orchestra in the Spring. The Orchestra travels to Saint Louis to perform with the dancers, and the dancers then travel to Springfield to perform with the Orchestra. In addition, Saint Louis Ballet co-presented Riverdance with Fox Associates.
$41,622 spent$59,311 earned by the program3% of program spendingSaint Louis Ballet's Professional Training Program is intended to help post graduate students transition from student to professional dancer. The Professional Training Program is a program for dancers ages 18-22 that concentrates on strengthening technique and developing artistry through a full-day, 35-week, comprehensive program. The Professional Training Program includes technique, pointe, variations, adagio, contemporary, and seminars and conferences on such topics as nutrition, personal safety, and life skills.
$8,941 spent$46,645 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,606,736.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $302k to $736k (+143%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 35% · 2022 27% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $103k → $162k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY’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
SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
56% 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 SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 50% · 2019 37% · 2020 22% · 2021 37% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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
64% of SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
57% of SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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
- Saint Louis Ballet School LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY?
- SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY (Missouri) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,332,796 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($280,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,332,796 in grants to SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY?
- REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $280,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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