Missouri · Nonprofit
ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being Arvest Foundation ($31,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Aspire of Southwest Missouri does
Mission
The mission is to help single parents become self-sufficient through post- secondary education.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Providing scholarships to students who qualify.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $151k to $168k (+11%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 63% · 2021 77% · 2022 77% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,572 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,572 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI?
- ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being Arvest Foundation ($31,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $44,000 in grants to ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI?
- Arvest Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $31,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing