Missouri · Nonprofit
WE ALWAYS SWING INC
WE ALWAYS SWING INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,923 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($96,260). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
WE ALWAYS SWING INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Boone Electric Community Trustlocal
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio match
- Robert D Bielecki Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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 7% · 2018 20% · 2019 10% · 2021 12% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of WE ALWAYS SWING INC’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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $20k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 WE ALWAYS SWING INC’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
WE ALWAYS SWING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 WE ALWAYS SWING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of WE ALWAYS SWING INC'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 $48k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Boone Electric Community TrustlocalMO · funds 76 organizations near you
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert D Bielecki Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louis Armstrong Educational Foundatportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Music USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Matters Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gia Maione Prima Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funding Arts Broward Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artswestchester Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding WE ALWAYS SWING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WE ALWAYS SWING INC
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WE ALWAYS SWING INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WE ALWAYS SWING INC?
- WE ALWAYS SWING INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,923 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($96,260). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WE ALWAYS SWING INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $143,923 in grants to WE ALWAYS SWING INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WE ALWAYS SWING INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $96,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WE ALWAYS SWING INC 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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing