Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$2,986,857

Total expenses

$4,756,571

Contributions and grants received

$2,941,752

Grants paid

$1,510,287

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$16,410

Other revenue

$28,695

Total assets, end of year

$5,959,306

Total liabilities, end of year

$298,695

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$5,660,611

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,245,323

Management and general expenses

$357,943

Fundraising expenses

$153,305

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,245,323

Program services were 89.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• MISSOURI HUMANITIES OFFERED 197 LIVE AND ASYNCHRONOUS COUNCIL-CONDUCTED PROGRAMS IN 2025. SUBRECIPIENT-CONDUCTED ACTIVITIES TOOK PLACE WITH 443,079 PARTICIPANTS. 506,046 TOTAL MISSOURIANS WERE SERVED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. GRANTSMAJOR GRANTS ARE AWARDED TO HUMANITIES-BASED PROPOSALS TWICE YEARLY FOR UP TO $15,000. MINI GRANTS ARE OFFERED TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS FOR PROJECTS OF UP TO $5,000. IN FY25, MH DISTRIBUTED A TOTAL OF $1,510,287 IN GRANTS. 90 GRANT-FUNDED PROGRAMS WERE HELD IN FY25, SERVING 404,667 PEOPLE.IDEAS THAT SHAPE OUR SOCIETY.SIGNATURE SERIESWE PROMOTE PUBLIC DIALOGUE THROUGH SCHOLARLY LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, INTERPRETIVE EXHIBITS, AND INTERACTIVE EVENTS. OUR SIGNATURE SERIES IN 2025 WAS MISSOURI VOICES: CIVICS AND CITIZENRY. WE EXPLORED INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE ROLES IN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION AS WE EXAMINE THE BOLD "AMERICAN EXPERIMENT" OF A GOVERNMENT RUN BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE, A VISION ROOTED IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 4,153 INDIVIDUALS JOINED US IN PERSON FOR 9 TENT-POLE SIGNATURE SERIES PROGRAMS. MISSOURI HUMANITIES ALSO PRODUCED 5 EPISODES OF THE MISSOURI VOICES PODCAST, WHICH WAS DOWNLOADED 520 TIMES. MISSOURI HUMANITIES PRODUCED THE DOCUMENTARY NOT IN OUR WILDEST DREAMS", WHICH HAD 918 VIEWS.CULTURAL HERITAGEOUR HERITAGE PROGRAMS PROMOTE MISSOURI'S RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE AND HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. WE OFFERED 25 UNIQUE PROGRAMS, INCLUDING SCHOLAR PANELS, CULTURAL HERITAGE WORKSHOPS, AND TRAVELING EXHIBITS. WE ALSO HOSTED IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL CAPACITY-BUILDING WORKSHOPS FOR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS ACROSS THE STATE, REACHING AN AVERAGE OF 83 ATTENDEES PER WORKSHOP.VETERANS PROGRAMSTO AMPLIFY VETERAN VOICES AND EXPERIENCES, MH HOSTED TWO VETERANS WRITING WORKSHOPS, CO-PUBLISHED PROUD TO BE: WRITINGS BY AMERICAN WARRIORS, VOLUME 13, AND PRESENTED A PROUD TO BE READING AND ROUNDTABLE. THROUGH THESE PROGRAMS, WE ENGAGED 52 VETERANS, MILITARY-CONNECTED FAMILY MEMBERS, AND CIVILIANS.DIGITAL PROGRAMMINGMISSOURI HUMANITIES PROUDLY OFFERS MULTIPLE WAYS TO ENGAGE WITH HUMANITIES-BASED CONTENT FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME OR ON THE GO. FROM FILMS, VIDEO SERIES, PODCASTS, AND RECORDED PROGRAMS, TUNE IN TO EXPERIENCE A VARIETY OF STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE, PLACES, AND IDEAS ROOTED IN THE HUMANITIES. IN FY25, WE EXPERIENCED 57,992 VIDEO VIEWS WITH 2,136 HOURS WATCHED. 3,349 PODCASTS WERE DOWNLOADED. OUR PODCASTS HELP US REACH MORE PEOPLE BY PROVIDING HIGH-QUALITY, ENGAGING STORIES THAT LISTENERS CAN ENJOY ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. EACH YEAR, WE PRODUCE NEW EPISODES OF OUR MISSOURI HUMANITIES SIGNATURE SERIES PODCAST AND THE SMALL TOWN SHOWCASE PODCAST. IN 2025, WE PRODUCED 6 MORE SMALL TOWN SHOWCASE EPISODES AND 5 SIGNATURE SERIES EPISODES. IN TOTAL, OUR PODCASTS RECEIVED 3,349 DOWNLOADS. OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL RECEIVED 36,693 VIEWS, 1,669 HOURS OF VIEWERSHIP, AND 5,146 SUBSCRIBERS. IN SMALL TOWN SHOWCASE, WE STRIVE TO HIGHLIGHT THE UNIQUENESS OF RURAL MISSOURI AND TO SHOWCASE THE BIGGER PICTURE OF WHAT SMALL-TOWN AMERICA REALLY IS AND WHY IT SHOULDN'T BE OVERLOOKED, OVERSHADOWED, OR UNDERAPPRECIATED. EACH YEAR, COMMUNITIES WITH POPULATIONS UNDER 10,000 ARE NOMINATED AND VOTED ON BY MISSOURIANS TO BECOME OUR ANNUAL "FEATURED FIVE" COMMUNITIES, WHO THEN WORK WITH US THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO PRODUCE A PODCAST EPISODE AND SHORT FILM ABOUT THEIR TOWN. IN 2025, OUR FEATURED FIVE WERE ELSBERRY, STE. GENEVIEVE, POTOSI, PRAIRIE HOME, AND TARKIO. H-TV IS MISSOURI HUMANITIES' STREAMING PLATFORM'S CURATED COLLECTION OF FILMS, DOCU-SERIES, AND OTHER DIGITAL STORYTELLING PROJECTS TO CONNECT VIEWERS WITH STORIES, PEOPLE, AND PLACES ROOTED IN THE HUMANITIES. CONTENT ON H-TV INCLUDES PROJECTS PRODUCED BY MISSOURI HUMANITIES, LIKE SMALL TOWN SHOWCASE AND SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS, AS WELL AS CONTENT FROM OTHER CREATORS WHO STRIVE TO SHARE STORIES THROUGH FILM. WE ENDED THE YEAR WITH 21,398 USERS.LITERARY PROGRAMSMORE THAN 1,697 PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN OUR THIRD ANNUAL HEARTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL, PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MIDCONTINENT LIBRARY. THE FESTIVAL FEATURED LOCAL AND NATIONAL AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS, AND BOOKSTORES THROUGH AUTHOR TALKS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, BOOK SIGNINGS, WORKSHOPS, AND BOOKCENTRIC VENDORS. AS THE MISSOURI CENTER FOR THE BOOK, MH REPRESENTED MISSOURI LITERATURE WITH TWO BOOK SELECTIONS AT THE 25TH ANNUAL LIBRARY OF CONGRESS'S NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.SPEAKERS BUREAUWE PARTNER WITH THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI TO PROVIDE A CATALOG OF 35 EXPERT HISTORIANS, STORYTELLERS, AND SCHOLARS TO GIVE IN-PERSON PRESENTATIONS ABOUT MISSOURI'S CULTURE, HISTORY, ART, AND PEOPLE TO AUDIENCES ACROSS THE STATE. IN FY25, A TOTAL OF 146 PRESENTATIONS WERE HELD ACROSS THE STATE, ATTENDED BY 4,721 INDIVIDUALS.

  Expenses $4,245,323 · Grants $1,510,287

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• OZARK VITALITY

  $39,000

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

• READY READERS

  $36,000

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

• REEL IMAGES FILM & VIDEO GROUP

  $36,000

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

• MAGNIFICENT MISSOURI

  $31,500

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

• ROUTE 66 ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI INC

  $29,700

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

• NEWTON COUNTY TOURISM COUNCIL

  $28,800

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

• UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC

  $28,000

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

• SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL OPERA

  $27,000

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

• STONE COUNTY HISTORICALGENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

  $27,000

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

• PRESSER HALL RESTORATION SOCIETY

  $25,500

  HUMANITIES PROGRAMS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

7 July 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202631899349300508

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