Missouri · Nonprofit
ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR
ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,001 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($112,205). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $274k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $220k
- Net assets
- $-50082
What St Louis Classical Guitar does
Mission
To promote positive impact through classical guitar performance and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education program for the benefit of underserved communities. Training programs and school visits by local instructors and noted guitarists to selected school districts in the St. Louis Metropolitan area, primarily in North St. Louis, Jennings and Ferguson-Florissant. This also includes the donation of guitars and related equipment as well as curriculum materials for students in the affected districts.
$136,177 spent$29,261 earned by the program72% of program spendingConcert presentations by contracted artists: Performances by noted classical guitarists, supporting musicians, and local classical guitar ensembles open to the general public.
$52,442 spent$29,438 earned by the program28% of program spendingRadio program on local radio stations presented with one weekly live broadcast and one rebroadcast on Radio Arts Foundation-St. Louis.
$1,810 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $190,429.
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 2022 to 2023, from $106k to $37k (−65%).
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.
81% of ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $26k → $54k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR’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 CLASSICAL GUITAR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 CLASSICAL GUITAR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 96% · 2019 94% · 2020 66% · 2021 64% · 2022 74% · 2023 58% — 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
50% of ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
92% of ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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.
Against its field
ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $262k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$262k
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 ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR: 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 CLASSICAL GUITAR?
- ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,001 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($112,205). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $220,001 in grants to ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR?
- REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $112,205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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