Missouri · Nonprofit
THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,560 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $119k
What The Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation does
Mission
To promote cultural exchange
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Jazz Quartet Delegation 20th Edgar Snow SymposiumThe Foundation sponsored a jazz quartet led by saxophonist Bobby Watson, joined by Charles Williams, James Ward, and Jaylen Ward, as part of the Kansas City delegation to the 20th Edgar Snow Symposium in Zhengzhou, China (October 1019, 2025). The quartet performed and conducted cultural exchanges in Beijing, Zhengzhou, and Shanghai, including at the Central Conservatory of Music, Henan School of Music, and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, reaching audiences of students and music lovers across China.
$22,971 spent74% of program spendingPhysician Delegation 20th Edgar Snow SymposiumThe Foundation sponsored Dr. Ahmed Abdelmoity, a pediatric neurologist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, to join the delegation to the 20th Edgar Snow Symposium in Zhengzhou, China. Dr. Abdelmoity presented at the Symposium and met with peers at Beijing Children's Hospital and Shanghai Children's Hospital to share ideas and explore cooperative opportunities.
$6,962 spent23% of program spendingThe Foundation supports cultural exchange and community engagement activities that promote understanding between the American and Chinese people, consistent with its exempt mission.The Foundation was a sponsor of the annual Kansas City International Dragon Boat Festival, organized by the Society for Friendship with China, whose mission is to conduct friendship activities, trade, tourism, and educational exchanges, and to promote greater understanding between the people of China and the Kansas City metropolitan area. The event enhanced ethnic diversity, cultural awareness, and understanding of Chinese culture, benefiting an estimated 2,000 visitors.The Foundation also partnered with the Kansas City Chinese Association (KCCA) and the Kansas City Chinese American Association (KCCAA) on their annual Chinese New Year Celebration activities, benefiting an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 individuals.
$1,000 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,933.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $76k to $130k (+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.
58% of THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $51k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’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
THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
92% 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 THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% — 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
92% of THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION'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. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's revenue fell 84% between 2019 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
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In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,560 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $54,560 in grants to THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EDGAR SNOW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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 2019–2026), 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