Missouri · Nonprofit
STAGES ST LOUIS
STAGES ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,222,107 to it, the largest being ROSS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,329,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $379k
What Stages St Louis does
Mission
Stages st. Louis is committed to creating unforgettable theatre through one-of-a-kind productions, inclusive stories, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program 1 - musical theatre productionssince 1987, stages st. Louis has produced professional, broadway-quality musical theatre. The mainstage season, which runs from may through october, features three productions annually, each with 37 performances. Auditions are held in both st. Louis and new york to attract a diverse and highly skilled pool of performers.stages is a leading employer of local union actors in the st. Louis region, providing approximately 450 union work weeks each year. Mainstage productions serve nearly 45,000 patrons annually, drawing audiences from more than 235 cities across 33 states and contributing significantly to the cultural vitality of the region.
$4,637,513 spent$2,356,167 earned by the program86% of program spendingProgram 2 performing arts academyestablished in 2004, the stages performing arts academy (spaa) provides comprehensive performing arts education and outreach opportunities for students throughout the st. Louis area. As the only local performing arts academy affiliated with a professional theatre company, spaa offers a unique, high-quality learning experience.spaa programs serve more than 6,000 students and community members annually, including over 2,500 students who receive direct classroom instruction. The academy is committed to accessibility and equity, ensuring that no student is denied participation due to financial constraints. To support this mission, spaa provides more than $15,000 each year in scholarships and program subsidies.
$758,109 spentof which $9,064 as grants$452,972 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,395,622.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.8M to $5.9M (+54%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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 12 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $308k → $473k.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 STAGES ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
STAGES ST LOUIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 STAGES ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 35% · 2019 31% · 2020 73% · 2021 42% · 2022 28% · 2023 21% — 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
68% of STAGES ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
95% of STAGES ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 STAGES ST LOUIS
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 STAGES ST LOUIS: 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 STAGES ST LOUIS?
- STAGES ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,222,107 to it, the largest being ROSS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,329,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STAGES ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $5,222,107 in grants to STAGES ST LOUIS, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAGES ST LOUIS?
- ROSS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,329,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAGES ST LOUIS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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