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Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee: 75 grants to organizations, $2.7 million (tax year ended June 2025)
Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee, a private foundation in Kansas City, MO, paid 75 grants to organizations totaling $2,732,077 in its tax year ended June 2025, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 13, 2025. The largest was $300,000 to Kansas City Symphony in Kansas City, MO for 2024/2024 season support.
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- EIN
- 436313811
- Based in
- Kansas City, MO
- Assets
- $66,803,299
- Grants paid
- $2,732,077
- Tax year ended
- June 2025
Grants paid, tax year ended June 2025
From the Form 990-PF filed November 13, 2025, IRS object ID 202533179349102758. It reported $2,732,077 in grants paid; 75 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Symphony | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2024 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $300,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City Dba Folly Theater | Kansas City, MO | Sound system upgrade | $178,677 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Kansas City Art Institute | Kansas City, MO | Michael vergason landscape plan over 2 years | Education | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Nelson Gallery Foundation | Kansas City, MO | Upexplored resonance acquisition support | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| William Jewell College (harriman-Jewell Series) | Liberty, MO | 2025/2026 season support recognized through season sponsorship | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | Kansas City, MO | Replace harlequin liberty latchloc stage in muriel kauffman theater | Arts, culture and humanities | $80,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Art Institute | Kansas City, MO | Ceramics program | Education | $65,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Ballet Association | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support and partial underwriting of don quixote | Arts, culture and humanities | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support and partial underwriting of emma | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2025 lyric ball | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Nelson Gallery Foundation | Kansas City, MO | Featured exhibitions: "we live in painting" | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Unicorn Theatre | Kansas City, MO | Fund our future (fof) campaign | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Musical Theater Heritage Inc | Kansas City, MO | Equipment upgrades | Arts, culture and humanities | $49,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Ballet Association | Kansas City, MO | Family production of "snow white" | Arts, culture and humanities | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | Kansas City, MO | 2025 future stages festival | Arts, culture and humanities | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Coterie Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2025/2026 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Symphony | Kansas City, MO | 2024 symphony ball | Arts, culture and humanities | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Unicorn Theatre | Kansas City, MO | Season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Arts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | Kc studio magazine | Arts, culture and humanities | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Charlotte Street Foundation | Kansas City, MO | Used at the discretion of the board of directors or trustees as they see fit for operating their organization | Arts, culture and humanities | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friends of Chamber Music | Kansas City, MO | Artistic planning as part of 50th anniversary campaign | Arts, culture and humanities | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Actors Theatre Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2025/2026 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Chorale | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Park University | Parkville, MO | Park icm season support through stanislav & friends | Education | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Chapter of Young Audiences Inc | Kansas City, MO | Used at the discretion of the board of directors or trustees as they see fit for operating their organization | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kemper Museum Operating Foundation Dba Kemper Museum of Art | Kansas City, MO | Stan douglas: metronome | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Music-Arts Institute | Independence, MO | Scholarships | Arts, culture and humanities | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Owen-Cox Dance Group | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 performance season and take the stage | Arts, culture and humanities | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival | Kansas City, MO | 2025 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| William Jewell College (harriman-Jewell Series) | Liberty, MO | Transition support for new 501(c)(3) entity | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey | Kansas City, MO | Ailey ii residency | Arts, culture and humanities | $18,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Youth Symphony Association of Kansas City Inc | Kansas City, MO | Orchestral education program | Arts, culture and humanities | $18,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friends of Chamber Music | Kansas City, MO | 2025/2026 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Heartland Men's Chorus | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City Dba Artskc - Regional Arts | Kansas City, MO | Marketing capacity program | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mid-America Arts Alliance | Kansas City, MO | Arts programming in the metropolitan kansas city area | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Moving Arts Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | 2025 season support | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Teentix KC | Kansas City, MO | Teentix kc program pilot | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harry S Truman Library Institute for National & International Affairs | Kansas City, MO | Art perservation project | $12,600 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Bach Aria Soloists | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support with one-time increase for helen sung commission | Arts, culture and humanities | $12,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Umkc Foundation (university of Missouri-Kansas City - Conservatory) | Kansas City, MO | Healing & harmony concert series | $11,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Umkc Foundation (university of Missouri-Kansas City - Conservatory) | Kansas City, MO | Mfa student fellowship in sound design | $10,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Art As Mentorship Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2025 rebel song academy expansion | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Episcopal Diocese of West Missorui (St Paul's Episcopal Church) | Kansas City, MO | Piano acquisition | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Johnson County Community College Foundation | Overland Park, KS | New dance partners 2025 | Education | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Mesner Puppet Theater Dba What If Puppets | Kansas City, MO | Season support | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Northeast Community Center Inc | Kansas City, MO | Harmony project kc: program support | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City Dba Folly Theater | Kansas City, MO | 2025/2026 folly jazz series | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Spire Chamber Ensemble | Kansas City, MO | Special capacity building grant | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Umkc Foundation (university of Missouri-Kansas City - Conservatory) | Kansas City, MO | Conservatory bridges | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Umkc Foundation (university of Missouri-Kansas City - Conservatory) | Kansas City, MO | Voice scholarship in honor of vinson cole | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Missouri-Kansas City - Kcur Radio | Kansas City, MO | Matching challenge funds for classical kc | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wylliams-Henry Contemporary Dance | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Charlotte Street Foundation | Kansas City, MO | Charlotte street library improvements | Arts, culture and humanities | $8,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Jazz Orchestra | Kansas City, MO | 2025/2026 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Musical Theater Heritage Inc | Kansas City, MO | Season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Summerfest Concerts And-Or Recordings Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2025 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Ensemble Iberica Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2023 & 2024 season support | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Heartland Chamber Music LTD | Kansas City, MO | Used at the discretion of the board of directors or trustees as they see fit for operating their organization | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City | Overland Park, KS | 2023/2024 & 2024/2025 season support at the white theater | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Art in the Loop Foundation | Kansas City, MO | Downtown kc public art exhibition & performance series | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Interurban Arthouse | Overland Park, KS | Iuah studio artist residencies & project funding | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Ballet Association | Kansas City, MO | 2024 nutcracker ball | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2025 gala | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Spinning Tree Theatre | Kansas City, MO | Season support | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Spire Chamber Ensemble | Kansas City, MO | Season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Youth Chorus of Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Te Deum Inc | Kansas City, MO | 2024/2025 season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Friends of the Opus 76 Quartet | Prairie Village, KS | Season support | Arts, culture and humanities | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Japan America Society LTD | Kansas City, MO | Greater kansas city japan festival | International, foreign affairs and national security | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Baroque Consortium | Kansas City, MO | Used at the discretion of the board of directors or trustees as they see fit for operating their organization | Arts, culture and humanities | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kansas City Wind Symphony Community Arts Enrichment Fund | Kansas City, MO | 2025/2026 season support | $1,500 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Arts, culture and humanities | $1,946,500 |
| Education | $230,000 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $12,000 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $2,500 |
States funded
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Updated November 13, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.