Missouri · Nonprofit
ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS
ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $408,750 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($408,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $409k
- Net assets
- $321k
What St Louis Voices Academy of Media Arts does
Mission
The mission of st. Louis voices academy of media arts is to leverage media arts and storytelling to equip students with the agency to excel academically, author their own futures, and make meaningful contributions in their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
St. Louis voices academy of media arts is a k-5 public charter school that aims to nurture a generation of leaders who bring a critical eye to the world around them, uplift important and diverse stories, and chart their own course. We work with parents, administrators and teachers to create a critical lens through which our students can view the world around them and empower them to make an impact on their community.
$1,150,006 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,150,006.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $77k to $321k (+318%).
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: 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Dr Hollie Russell-West
Executive director
Board chair
Deborah Catchings-Smith
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS’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.
Where its funders are
ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
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
ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS: 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 VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS?
- ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $408,750 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($408,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $408,750 in grants to ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS?
- NEW SCHOOLS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $408,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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