Missouri · Nonprofit
ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD
ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,480 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($123,365). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $468k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $149k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What St Louis Artists Guild does
Mission
The St. Louis Artists' Guild ('Guild') inspires art experiences through extraordinary exhibitions, interactive art education, outreach to underserved audiences, and by fostering creativity throughout the community.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The education program includes lectures, classes and workshops. Most lectures, discussion groups, and demonstrations are free and open to the public. Artists and individuals interested in the artistic process gain insight its creation and the potential for a creative career. Day and evening classes, as well as workshops for adults and child, are offered in a wide variety of disciplines. Members receive a discount on class fees, and the Artists' Guild provides scholarship opportunities. The Artists' Guild also offers free on-site and off-site children's programming and low-cost family activities. In the current fiscal year, the Artists' Guild impacted 1800 people through the education program.
$236,828 spent$195,615 earned by the program69% of program spendingThe Artists' Guild presents a series of juried, curated, and invitational art exhibitions, exhibit related talks, sponsorship of events, demonstrations, docent tours, workshops, professional development and educational outreach enhance the art experience. There were over 6,000 attendees during the year.
$107,199 spent$60,771 earned by the program31% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $344,027.
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.
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 $317k to $1.1M (+231%).
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: 2017 7% · 2021 33% · 2023 7% · 2024 9% · 2025 9% · 2026 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Zackary Petot
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $27k → $16k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $60k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Louis Artists' Guild Permanent Endowment Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD raised.
From the IRS filings of ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD’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
ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 66% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% 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
100% of ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Organizations like ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD
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
96%
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
- STL Artists Guild Permanent Endowment · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD: 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 ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD?
- ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,480 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($123,365). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $149,480 in grants to ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD?
- REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $123,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST LOUIS ARTISTS GUILD 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 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