Missouri · Nonprofit
BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC
BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,323,809 to it, the largest being KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN MINORITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($500,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $793k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Black Archives of Mid-America Inc does
Mission
The Mission of The Black Archives of Mid-America is to collect, preserve and make available to the public materials documenting the social, economic, political and cultural histories of persons of African descent in the Central United States, with an emphasis on the Kansas City, Missouri region. The Black Archives of Mid-America is an educational resource and provides access to its collections for research, exhibition and publication to honor our community's heritage and to catalyze public awareness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Year 2024 was filled with amazing growth and productivity for the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City. Still recovering from a near shut-down following the COVID 19 epidemic, we instituted new exhibitions, programs, and events that drew many people to our building. We also partnered with many people and organizations to bring valuable information in. We have worked diligently to stabilize our resources, build our staff and enhance our commitment to our community. Financial: Board Chair Marjorie Williams identified and wrote a successful grant proposal for $10,000 to the AIDS Service Foundation for outreach to women. Our first "reach" was to women at the UMKC Women of Color Leadership Summit. We also included AIDS/HIV education at our Red Table Top Women's Empowerment Summit. BAYCON leaders Marcus Bass and John McGee facilitated an informational table and dispersed fliers on HIV/AIDS at the Footprints, Inc at Christian Fellowship Baptist church. BAKC received eight NTDF grants: Black History Month Gala: $46,800, Find Your Folks: Genealogy Seminar: $5,500, National African American Quilt Conference: $19,200, Operation Hero Homecoming: $5000, Stop the Violence Basketball…
$527,960 spentof which $6,000 as grants$7,807 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $527,960.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.4M to $5.8M (+8%).
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: 2017 37% · 2018 47% · 2019 64% · 2020 34% · 2021 66% · 2022 53% · 2023 56% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC’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. 7 of the last 8 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
Carmaletta Williams
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Marjorie Williams
Board Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $49k → $86k.
1 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC’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
BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 69% · 2022 36% · 2023 70% — 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
20% of BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
89% of BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k 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.
Against its field
BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA 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
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC?
- BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,323,809 to it, the largest being KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN MINORITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($500,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,323,809 in grants to BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC?
- KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN MINORITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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