Missouri · Nonprofit
STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,197 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $355k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $901k
What Stars and Stripes National Museum and Library does
Mission
Education about the military newspaper in wars and conflicts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education - provide educational events for grades pre k- 12. Various activities are provied for chilren at a monthly kids day and journalizm summer camp. This includes programs on specific envents in history, crafts, and other activities. Over 5,000 have attended these events this year.
$124,740 spent79% of program spendingExhibits: exhibits to provide education thru visual and interactive venues. Exhibits devoted to civil, wwi and wwii, viet nam and recent conflicts are on display. A walk-thru guided tour is provided as well as interactive displays. Approximately 10,000 - 12,000 visitors a year. A library containing a vast supply of the stars & stripes newspapers is available for viewing and research. An original 1861 publication of the first newspaper,one of four in existance, is available. Many enjoy reading these newspapers. We also have free monthly history programs, free kids programs, a 1 week journalism summer camp and living history events at least three a year. In addition, we do veteran history projects for the library of congress preservation. We have traveling exhibits and our barn is a living history exhibit with wwii barracks, etc.
$33,266 spent21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,006.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $468k to $804k (+72%).
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.
76% of STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY’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. 0 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $30 → $7k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY’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
STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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 STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY: 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 STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY?
- STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,197 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,197 in grants to STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARS AND STRIPES NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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