Missouri · Nonprofit
BE GREAT TOGETHER
BE GREAT TOGETHER (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,762,953 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($550,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $241k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $445k
What Be Great Together does
Mission
Begreat together empowers teachers within their leadership and inspires students to become the leaders they are by offering programming and technical assistance, establishing school-to-community partnerships that create sustainability, (continued on schedule o)and providing funding to teacher-and student-led k-12 programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Begreat together ventures to fund and support the development of public-school programs and initiatives. Primary focus areas include school and community program development, robotics and stem program expansion, and broadcasting and media program development.(continued on schedule o)(1) school and community program development & fundingaccomplishments & measurements: - served 600+ students across various k-12 programs.- supported 11 educators in implementing new or expanded curriculum-based initiatives.- provided over $150,000 in funding support to school partners since 2021.- delivered more than 1,100 innovative learning hours through hands-on educational programming.objective: - short-term: equip educators with programming support, resources, and technical assistance to implement sustainable school initiatives.- long-term: expand community-school partnerships that strengthen educational experiences and student leadership opportunities.estimated information: student participation and instructional hour figures are based on aggregated educator and program partner reports.(2) robotics and stem program expansionaccomplishments & measurements: - robotics and stem programming expanded…
$362,215 spentof which $34,450 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $362,215.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $680k to $449k (−34%).
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.
100% of BE GREAT TOGETHER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Avrell Stokes
Executive director & secretary
Board chair
Cortney Woodruff
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $305k → $445k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 BE GREAT TOGETHER’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
BE GREAT TOGETHER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 BE GREAT TOGETHER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 49% · 2022 35% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
BE GREAT TOGETHER draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BE GREAT TOGETHER is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BE GREAT TOGETHER
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Magnolia Media Corporation Dba Assemblefyi · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE GREAT TOGETHER: 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 BE GREAT TOGETHER?
- BE GREAT TOGETHER (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,762,953 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($550,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BE GREAT TOGETHER have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,762,953 in grants to BE GREAT TOGETHER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BE GREAT TOGETHER?
- HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BE GREAT TOGETHER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 15 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