Missouri · Nonprofit
SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI
SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,999 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($38,449). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $467k
What Sister Cities Association of Springfield Missouri does
Mission
Springfield sister cities association is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people of the city of springfield and people of similar cities in foreign nations acquire a consciousness of each other and to understand one another as individuals, as members of their community, and as part of our global community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To promote cultural understanding through our annual japanese festival and trips to sister cities in mexico and japan
$114,286 spentof which $11,995 as grants$96,763 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $114,286.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $307k to $412k (+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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Bakerink
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $6k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI’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
SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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 SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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
74% of SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI: 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 SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI?
- SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,999 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($38,449). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $51,999 in grants to SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $38,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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