Missouri · Nonprofit
Back to Play
Back to Play (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,886 to it, the largest being Lockton Cares Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Back to Play does
Mission
Back to Play enhances the well-being of families in Jefferson County Missouri by providing a safe nurturing environment where children can explore learn and thrive through play. The organization supports early childhood development and family stability by offering affordable play-based programs caregiver workshops community resources and inclusive engagement opportunities that strengthen family connections and promote healthy child development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Indoor Playroom: Provides a safe inclusive and developmentally rich play environment for young children and their caregivers. Offers open-ended sensory play low-cost access for families and half-price admission for foster and adoptive children. Promotes social-emotional growth and family connection through play.
$31,000 spent91% of program spendingCaregiver workshops: Provides educational workshops parent support groups and referrals to local resources in partnership with agencies such as Parents as Teachers and Salvation Army. Focus on strengthening parenting skills and mental health through community connection.
$3,000 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,000.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Brianne Zwiener
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Back to Play’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
Back to Play leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 Back to Play.
“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
93% of Back to Play's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
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
Back to Play runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,694 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,694 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Back to Play
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Back to Play: 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 Back to Play?
- Back to Play (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,886 to it, the largest being Lockton Cares Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Back to Play have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $38,886 in grants to Back to Play.
- Who is the largest funder of Back to Play?
- Lockton Cares Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Back to Play 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 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