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BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION

BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$171k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$433k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Belles of the American Royal Organization does

Mission

To foster interest among its members in the social and civic activities pertaining to events sponsored or conducted by the american royal association, inc. And to make available their volunteer american royal activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The belles of the american royal (botar)is a womens leadership organization that supports the unique mission of the american royal and its role in promoting the agribusiness economy in kansas city and the region. Botar encourages civic involvment and develops leadership skills through inter-generational mentoring and volunteerism. As a part of their support of the american royal, botar members provide funds for the american royal scholarship and educational programs, volunteer for the school tours program, and provide hospitality to american royal student ambassadors. The efforts of botar members during the year resulted in monetary support to the american royal association.

    $131,260 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $131,260.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($276k) Expenses 100 ($256k) Net assets 100 ($237k)2018 Revenue 96 ($266k) Expenses 96 ($247k) Net assets 100 ($238k)2019 Revenue 78 ($216k) Expenses 91 ($233k) Net assets 107 ($254k)2020 Revenue 41 ($114k) Expenses 36 ($92k) Net assets 123 ($292k)2021 Revenue 119 ($329k) Expenses 119 ($305k) Net assets 140 ($330k)2022 Revenue 63 ($174k) Expenses 71 ($181k) Net assets 114 ($270k)2023 Revenue 66 ($183k) Expenses 57 ($146k) Net assets 144 ($340k)2024 Revenue 119 ($328k) Expenses 113 ($289k) Net assets 170 ($401k)2025 Revenue 62 ($171k) Expenses 67 ($172k) Net assets 183 ($433k)
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Revenue (62)Expenses (67)Net assets (183)Peer revenue range

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 $271k to $363k (+34%).

$237k
$279k
$256k
$292k
$332k
$271k
$363k
$404k
$437k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

31% of BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
$19k
’18
−$17k
’19
$22k
’20
$23k
’21
−$7k
’22
$37k
’23
$38k
’24
−$1k
’25
2.9
months of
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.

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Listed21202024242321208
Joined·+13+13+21+10+17+16+14+7
No longer listed·1413171018181519
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $139k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Kansas City Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION raised.

From the IRS filings of BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION’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

BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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

56% 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 BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

56% of BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.

MO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 6%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

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Questions and answers

Who funds BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION?
BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,500 in grants to BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BELLES OF THE AMERICAN ROYAL ORGANIZATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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