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Missouri · Public charity

Better Living Communities

Acquisition and development of resl estate and low income housing development

$26k
Granted FY2019
3
Grants FY2019
3
Organizations funded FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$400
Largest grant, FY2019
$25,000
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$742k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Arch Community School$25,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($500), not named here.

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About Better Living Communities

How much does Better Living Communities give?
Better Living Communities reported 3 grants totaling $25,500 in its FY2019 IRS filing.
What does Better Living Communities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (98%), Human Services (2%), Religion (0%).
Who are Better Living Communities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2019: The Arch Community School ($25k).
Where is Better Living Communities based?
Better Living Communities is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports $30k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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