Missouri · Nonprofit
AVENUE OF LIFE INC
AVENUE OF LIFE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,807,743 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,659,079). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Avenue of Life Inc does
Mission
To mobilize our community to equip and empower low-income individuals and families to be self- sustained and independent.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Avenue of life added a program for the youth center house purchased in 2019.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Equipping Center Program served 7,833 unduplicated individuals. This program provided 23,660 hot meals, 2,238 frozen meals, 18,615 food packs, and is a vital lifeline for families and individuals in Wyandotte County, offering a holistic range of services that nurture emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. From serving hot meals and distributing essential pantry items, to providing transporation classes like GED and ESL-the Equipping Center is committed to empowering our community while fostering hope, dignity, and a pathway toward a brighter future.
$446,359 spent15% of program spendingIMPACT KCK provided case management to 359 families and eviction prevention to 103 families. Impact KCK is changing the lives of Wyandotte Countys McKinney-Vento children youth and families by addressing homelessness through collaboration and compassion. The Impact KCK model is based on the collective impact model for community change, with AOL serving in the role of backbone agency. The Impact KCK model allows for a single days effort to be greatly multiplied through the collaboration of 90+ cross-sector service providers providing targeted wraparound care in a single space. This program serves families in all four Wyandotte County school districts. Services include housing, healthcare, case management,nutrition, mental health and substance abuse counseling. ID/Birth certificate, employment, vocational training, GED, ESL, various untility assistance. Childcare, legal aid, personal finance & budgeting classes, transportation, furniture trauma care, parenting classes, pastoral care and emergency relief.
$1,565,745 spent53% of program spendingImpact MO & KCPS Empowerment-Impact MOserved 323 households. This program focuses on homelessness prevention services for at-risk children and empowers Kansas City charter school students and their families by connecting them to essential community services through monthly, transformative events in one convenient location. The KCPS Empowerment Program (2022-2025), in partnership with KC Public School District, was a three-year initiative transforming the lives of Mc-Kinney-Venmo students and their families in Kansas City, MO. Grounded in the collective impact model this program addresses the unique challenges faced by homeless students, providing critical resources and support to build brighter futures for the next generation. Impact KCMO launched in the 2025-2026 school year to provide the full Impact model to Jackson County MKV students with a focus on housing charter school MKV students, KCPS, and early head start families. Impact KCMO housed 45 families and provided case management to 137 families in 2025.
$957,915 spent32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,970,019.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $946k to $1.4M (+50%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 40% · 2021 46% · 2022 20% · 2023 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of AVENUE OF LIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Matt Adams
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $268k → $681k.
12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AVENUE OF LIFE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
AVENUE OF LIFE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AVENUE OF LIFE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 29% · 2019 56% · 2020 68% · 2021 40% · 2022 36% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of AVENUE OF LIFE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
54% of AVENUE OF LIFE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.7M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
AVENUE OF LIFE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AVENUE OF LIFE INC
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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVENUE OF LIFE INC: 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 AVENUE OF LIFE INC?
- AVENUE OF LIFE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,807,743 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,659,079). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AVENUE OF LIFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $5,807,743 in grants to AVENUE OF LIFE INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVENUE OF LIFE INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,659,079 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVENUE OF LIFE INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing