Missouri · Nonprofit
THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $610,500 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $611k
- Net assets
- $185k
What The Gem Theater Cultural and Performing Arts Center does
Mission
Development of cultural arts center, arts and arts-in-education programming and community development initiatives.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Development of cultural arts center, arts and arts-in-education programming and community development initiatives.
$100,091 spent$153,347 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $100,091.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $48k to $274k (+467%).
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 40% · 2021 42% · 2022 44% · 2023 70% · 2024 18% · 2025 97% · 2026 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $98k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 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 GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 77% — 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
25% of THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% 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
96% of THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER has grown faster than half of the 123 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 123 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $610,500 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $610,500 in grants to THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 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