Missouri · Nonprofit
THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER
THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,135 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($2,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $254k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $604k
What The Friends of the Green Center does
Mission
The Green Center is an arts and environmental organization dedicated to helping people understand the natural world through hands-on experiences, restoring native habitats, and encouraging artistic expression inspired by nature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: The Green Center supports the scout badge program, provided hands-on experiences for 2,200 students in K-8, while supporting a vegetable garden program for six local elementary schools, and provides various summer day camps. The Green Center also instituted an early learning childhood nature play and story telling program that served 220 children aged three to eight. In addition to these programs the Green Center offers educational experiences geared toward adults. The Green Center hosts a quarterly speaker series inviting various professionals to discuss how they connect to nature. The educational staff provides hands-on professional development seminars in ecology, inquiry based methodologies and arts integration for local teachers and informal educators.
$105,001 spent$126,257 earned by the program50% of program spendingOutdoor Learning Spaces: The Green Center restores and maintains 30 acres of native hardwood forest, prairie and wetlands.
$76,863 spent$6,592 earned by the program37% of program spendingArts: The Green Center's headquarters serves as a venue for artists whose visual, dramatic and literary production explore the connection between nature and the arts. in 2024 the Green Center hosted the Fall Fire Festival which included artist exhibitions drawing over 200 adults and children.
$27,451 spent$51,438 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $209,315.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $496k to $572k (+15%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 12% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $15.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER’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 FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135 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 FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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 FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER?
- THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,135 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($2,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,135 in grants to THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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