Springfield Regional Arts Council
Springfield Regional Arts Council (SRAC) is a public charity based in Springfield, Missouri. It connects people and the arts, supports arts and cultural organizations across a 27-county region, and makes grants to nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that are SRAC members.
Springfield Regional Arts Council at a glance
In short: Springfield Regional Arts Council gave $184K across 15 grants in 2025 (avg $12K), mostly in Missouri. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $183,916
- +8.2% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 15
- +15.4% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $12,261
- -6.2% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $10,000
- Total assets
- $1,400,912
- +4.4% vs 2024
- Primary geography
- Missouri (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
How to apply to Springfield Regional Arts Council
- How to Apply
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The website describes grant applications for eligible SRAC member organizations. It says Program Support applications are due on the stated cycle deadline and describes a review process in which a community committee scores applications and finalizes funding recommendations in partnership with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks.
- Contact
Mailing address: 411 N Sherman Parkway, Springfield, MO 65802
Phone: (417) 862-2787
Website: https://springfieldarts.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Who Springfield Regional Arts Council funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 10 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was KSMU ($20K). Together the top 10 received $150K.
Grant Size Distribution
28 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 28 grants of 28 (100%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
SRAC describes its outreach as spanning 27 counties, the largest outreach of any arts nonprofit in Missouri. Its 2026 Program Support Grant guidelines identify those counties as Barry, Barton, Bates, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Henry, Hickory, Howell, Jasper, Laclede, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Ozark, Polk, Pulaski, St. Clair, Stone, Taney, Texas, Vernon, Webster, and Wright. All listed 2025 grant dollars went to Missouri recipients.
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 15 itemized grants.
States
Cities
How Springfield Regional Arts Council gives
- 47% of 2025 grantees were also funded in 2024. Method
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990 filings (2025). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2024 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $170K (2024) to $184K (2025). In 2025 it made 15 grants totaling $184K.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| KSMU Springfield, MO | — | $20,000 |
| Moxie Cinema Springfield, MO | — | $20,000 |
| Ozarks Lyric Opera Springfield, MO | — | $20,000 |
| Sculpture Walk Springfield Springfield, MO | — | $20,000 |
| Springfield Art Museum Springfield, MO | — | $20,000 |
| American Indian Center of Springfie Springfield, MO | — | $10,000 |
| Spiva Center for the Arts Joplin, MO | — | $10,000 |
| Springfield Little Theatre Inc Springfield, MO | — | $10,000 |
| Springfield Symphony Orchestra Inc Springfield, MO | — | $10,000 |
| Living Lands Art Collective Ava, MO | — | $9,880 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,400,912 | $1,071,647 | $1,064,710 | $183,916 | 15 | $36,015 |
| 2024 | $1,341,832 | $959,079 | $918,086 | $169,900 | 13 | $31,648 |
| 2023 | $1,221,971 | $808,264 | $741,630 | — | — | $33,240 |
| 2022 | $1,117,778 | $710,258 | $610,071 | — | — | $21,139 |
| 2021 | $1,099,236 | $641,259 | $496,206 | — | — | $54,137 |
| 2020 | $904,832 | $537,892 | $509,508 | — | — | $67,987 |
| 2019 | $912,561 | $593,641 | $585,862 | — | — | $17,929 |
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated September 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
SRAC’s mission is “to transform lives and enrich our community through the arts.” Its website describes work advancing arts advocacy, education, and collaboration, and says its grants support arts and cultural programming.
The council’s 2024 filing describes arts education programming for underserved communities and advocacy for the arts across the region and at the state level. It also describes ArtsFest on Historic Walnut Street as an annual festival featuring more than 140 artists from across the country, performances, food, and hands-on art activities. The filing says Fresh Gallery, which was home to 20 Springfield-area artists, closed operations under SRAC in FY25.
Examples of supported organizations include Sculpture Walk Springfield, whose mission is to coordinate an outdoor sculpture museum around Springfield; Springfield Little Theatre, which describes itself as a volunteer-driven organization presenting live productions and preserving the historic Landers Theatre; and Springfield Contemporary Theatre, which presents year-round theatrical productions, according to the organizations’ stated missions.
Grantmaking
In filing year 2025, SRAC reported 15 grants totaling $183,916. Grants ranged from $6,000 to $20,000, with a median of $10,000. Notable awards included $20,000 each to KSMU, Moxie Cinema, Ozarks Lyric Opera, Sculpture Walk Springfield, and Springfield Art Museum; and $10,000 each to American Indian Center of Springfield, Spiva Center for the Arts, Springfield Little Theatre, and Springfield Symphony Orchestra.
SRAC’s website describes an annual Program Support Grant for member nonprofit arts organizations. The 2026 round offered up to $10,000 per organization for events, performances, classes, readings, outreach, exhibitions, public art, collaborations, and other program activities. The round’s total allocation was $120,000, including $30,000 designated for Springfield agencies and $90,000 for agencies in the 27-county service area. The website states that the 2026 application deadline was April 9, 2026; this is a past deadline.
The website also describes an Operating Support Grant for five Springfield arts organizations, providing $20,000 annually for three years. The program is closed to new applications until 2027. Its stated eligibility includes nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, government entities, school districts, or tax-exempt faith-based organizations with a primary mission in the arts; fiscally sponsored organizations are not eligible. Requests may not exceed 50% of an organization’s annual budget. The program’s stated priorities include arts advocacy, education, collaboration, tourism, operating capacity, and community access to high-quality arts and culture.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2025 filing lists Leslie Forrester as Executive Director; Kayla Bell as Treasurer; Josh Inmon as Secretary; Jim Bultas as Past President; and Susan Belcher, Bethany Bell, Ashley Davis, Jill Gregory, Dawn Gutierrez, and Mike Holmes as directors.
SRAC’s website reports a 21-member board and six full-time employees.
Springfield Regional Arts Council is led by Courtney Pinkham-Martin, President since 2025 (on filings since 2021); 1 of 22 officers listed in 2025 is compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Courtney Pinkham-Martin
President
Secretary → Vice President, 2024
Vice President → President, 2025
On filings since 2021
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Corey Kilburn
Director
Director → Immediate Pa, 2024
Immediate Pa → Director, 2025
On filings since 2019
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Susan Belcher
Director
On filings since 2020
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ashley Davis
Director
On filings since 2022
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Eric Olson
Director
On filings since 2022
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jill Gregory
Director
On filings since 2022
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kevin Waterland
Director
On filings since 2022
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Mike Holmes
Director
On filings since 2022
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Erik Kiser
Director
On filings since 2023
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Amanda Snead
Director
On filings since 2024
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Bethany Bell
Director
On filings since 2024
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Dawn Gutierrez
Director
On filings since 2024
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jon Spence
Director
On filings since 2024
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kenny Kabak
Director
On filings since 2024
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Vonda Yarberry
Director
On filings since 2024
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jessica Passeri
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Judi Kamien
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Leslie Forrester
Executive Di
On filings since 2019
60 hrs/week
$62K (2020) → $89K (2025)
Jim Bultas
Past President
Vice President → President, 2024
President → Past President, 2025
On filings since 2020
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kayla Bell
Treasurer
On filings since 2021
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Nathan Sutton
Vice President
Director → Secretary, 2024
Secretary → Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2021
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Josh Inmon
Secretary
Director → Secretary, 2025
On filings since 2022
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (29)
- Former: Megan Buchbinder (2020–2024) — Director
- Former: Matt Noblett (2021–2024) — Director
- Former: Allin Sorenson (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Betty Parnell (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Justin Petersburg (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Shawn Wahl (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Ellen Neville-Verdugo (2021–2023) — Director
- Former: Emlyn Johnson (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Chuck Dow (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Cynthia Lipscomb (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Jann Holland (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Jeff Cumley (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Kara Remington (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Marty Goodnight (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Sally Baird (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Laura Jean Derrick (2020–2021) — Director
- Former: James Jeffries (2021) — Director
- Former: Joshua Best (2019–2020) — President
- Former: Kat Allie (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Rachel Elsberry (2019–2020) — Treasurer
- Former: Winter Kinne (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: James Gorst (2020) — Director
- Former: Tessa Leroy (2020) — Director
- Former: Heather Rooney McBride (2019) — Director
- Former: Jennifer Jester (2019) — Past President
- Former: Jim Gorst (2019) — Director
- Former: Judith Garson (2019) — Director
- Former: Martin Gugel (2019) — Director
- Former: Tessa Diehl (2019) — Director
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $89K, to Leslie Forrester (Executive Di).
Frequently asked questions about Springfield Regional Arts Council
How much does Springfield Regional Arts Council give each year?
Springfield Regional Arts Council gave $184K across 15 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $170K across 13 grants.
What is Springfield Regional Arts Council's typical grant size?
Springfield Regional Arts Council's median grant in 2025 was $10,000, and its average grant was $12,261, across 15 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990.
Where does Springfield Regional Arts Council give grants?
Springfield Regional Arts Council gives mostly in Missouri: 100% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990 went to recipients there. The most frequent recipient cities were Springfield, MO (13 grants).
Who are Springfield Regional Arts Council's largest grantees?
Springfield Regional Arts Council's largest 2025 grantees include KSMU ($20,000), Moxie Cinema ($20,000) and Ozarks Lyric Opera ($20,000), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 33% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is Springfield Regional Arts Council?
Springfield Regional Arts Council reported $1.4M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $1.1M.
What does Springfield Regional Arts Council fund?
SRAC’s mission is “to transform lives and enrich our community through the arts.” Its website describes work advancing arts advocacy, education, and collaboration, and says its grants support arts and cultural programming. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Springfield Regional Arts Council?
The website describes grant applications for eligible SRAC member organizations. Eligibility and process details are in the grantmaking section of this profile. See how to apply ↑
What is Springfield Regional Arts Council's EIN?
Springfield Regional Arts Council's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 43-1225541. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated September 2026.
Data update history
(2)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS May 15, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 5, 2026)
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