How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Missouri?

Start with the funders already giving to education in Missouri, currently Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Missouri from out of state.

Who is the largest education funder in Missouri?

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation gives the most to education organizations in Missouri, $136M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to education in Missouri?

$2.9B reached 1,223 education organizations in Missouri, from 3,873 funders. 43% came from funders also based in Missouri.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Missouri · Education

Who funds education in Missouri

$2.9B reached 1,223 education organizations in Missouri, from 3,873 funders, with no single one dominating.

$2.9B

granted

1,223

organizations

43%

from in-state

The short version

3,873 funders gave $2.9B to 1,223 education organizations in Missouri across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
43% of that came from funders also based in Missouri; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of education in Missouri is Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, at $136M.
The education organization drawing the most is Washington University, at $946M.

Largest funders of education in Missouri

The funders giving the most to education organizations in Missouri, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation$136M 2Greater Kansas City Community Foundation$136M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$120M 4Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$117M 5St Louis Community Foundation Inc$93M 6Gates Foundation$79M 7Stanley M Herzog Charitable Foundation$62M 8American Endowment Foundation$59M 9Lewis W Hyer Tr$55M 10National Philanthropic Trust$45M

Education organizations in Missouri that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,213 other education organizations$1.4B

Washington University$946M

How to find education funders in Missouri

1
Start with the funders already active in Missouri
The funders giving the most to education in Missouri are Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing education checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the education organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
57% of education money in Missouri comes from funders elsewhere, so national education funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Missouri.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Missouri?: Start with the funders already giving to education in Missouri, currently Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Missouri from out of state.
Who is the largest education funder in Missouri?: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation gives the most to education organizations in Missouri, $136M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to education in Missouri?: $2.9B reached 1,223 education organizations in Missouri, from 3,873 funders. 43% came from funders also based in Missouri.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.