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FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM INC

EIN 43-1476636 SPRINGFIELD, MO

Largest nonprofits in Missouri

Revenue 2025
$698,272
Expenses 2025
$2,757,406

Program services were 99.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
840 N BOONVILLE AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

DEVELOPING AND PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT, AND ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT, FOR THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, AND OF ITS ARTISTIC AND EDUCATIONAL MISSION, AND ITS PUBLIC BUILDING AND PUBLIC WORKS NEEDS, AND THE UNMET OR UNDERFUNDED FINANCIAL NEEDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM.

  • PROVIDED FUNDING FOR THE OPERATION OF THE SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM AND SUPPORT OF RELATED PROGRAMS AND PHYSICAL EXPANSION.

    Expenses $2,730,778 · Grants $2,619,820

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Howard Cavner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Edwards

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leaster Gibson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shae Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Kerner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alia Lee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bryan Musgrave

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Rader

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Riedy

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jesse Tyler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Weiss

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sonya Wise

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $698,272
    Expenses
    $2,757,406
    Contributions
    $625,714
    Grants paid
    $2,619,820
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $907,091
    Expenses
    $886,093
    Contributions
    $691,424
    Grants paid
    $841,398
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $308,191
    Expenses
    $143,112
    Contributions
    $201,126
    Grants paid
    $81,985
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,151,471
    Expenses
    $108,632
    Contributions
    $6,089,511
    Grants paid
    $80,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Howard Cavner
Mailing address
1111 East Brookside DriveSpringfield MO 65807

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM

    $2,619,820

    2025 PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM

    $841,398

    2024 PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM

    $81,985

    2023 PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM

    $80,000

    2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT

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Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.