page_title: Rex Sinquefield
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Rex Sinquefield / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of Sinquefield Music Center taken from Hitt Street Parking Structure in June 2020.
context_page_description: Rex Andrew Sinquefield is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist who has been called an "index-fund pioneer". He is active in Missouri politics, his two main interests being rolling back the income tax and increasing public funding for charter schools.
context_section_description: Sinquefield and his family donate funds to a wide variety of organizations through the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. The foundation has donated in particular to the Today and Tomorrow Education Foundation, the Children's Education Alliance of Missouri, the Special Learning Center, the Dual Masters Scholarship Program at Saint Louis University, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, World Chess Hall of Fame, and the Mizzou New Music Initiative.
  In 2009, Sinquefield and his wife gave $1 million to the University of Missouri's School of Music. Those funds were used to create the New Music Initiative, an effort designed to encourage young people to become composers and to support new works of music composition. Sinquefield has made extensive contributions to the St. Vincent Home for Children.
caption: The Sinquefield Music Center at the University of Missouri
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