Missouri · Nonprofit
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $910,000 to it, the largest being TYNEWALD FOUNDATION ($900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-26730340
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $910k
- Net assets
- $260M
What Saint Louis Symphony Endowment Trust does
Mission
Manage and administer the endowment investment assets of the st louis symphony orchestra and to provide it with periodic distributions to support its operations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Manage and administer the endowment investment assets of the st louis symphony orchestra and to provide it with periodic distributions to support its operations.
$11,936,636 spentof which $11,936,636 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,936,636.
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 2021 to 2022, from $280M to $240M (−14%).
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.
-3% of SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
John Jennings
Chairman; trustee
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $21M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra). These are real filings, and they are not money SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST’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 SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 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
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST's revenue fell 503% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra · exempt
- Saint Louis Symphony Recording Company · exempt
- Encore Slso Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST: 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 SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST?
- SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $910,000 to it, the largest being TYNEWALD FOUNDATION ($900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $910,000 in grants to SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST?
- TYNEWALD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST 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 2 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