Kansas · Nonprofit
BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC
BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,091 to it, the largest being JOHN W AND EFFIE E SPEAS MEMORIAL TRUST ($42,191). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $347k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $162k
- Net assets
- $334k
What Brain Injury Assn of Ks & Greater Kc does
Mission
To provide ongoing brain injury advocacy, education and resources
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and awareness: conducts seminars for professionals who work with survivors of traumatic brain injury and families. Conducts community education and brain injury awareness events.
$190,307 spent$52,813 earned by the program71% of program spendingInformation and referral: program director and other staff conduct meetings with survivors and families of traumatic brain injuries and operate telephone hotline. Provide resource materials and information to professionals and those directly affected by brain injury.
$58,588 spent22% of program spendingPrevention: annually the association participates in community safety fairs and gives away bicycle helmets to children in need. With each helmet, the child is educated on the importance of wearing the helmet correctly to prevent brain injury. Staff educates school students about the importance of brain injury prevention strategies.
$19,790 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $268,685.
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 $242k to $385k (+59%).
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: 2018 13% · 2019 36% · 2020 41% · 2021 37% · 2022 52% · 2023 55% · 2024 57% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Heather Carbaugh
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $31k → $28k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC’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
BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
67% 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 BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 46% · 2019 52% · 2020 96% · 2021 88% · 2022 96% · 2023 89% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC'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
BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC is better cushioned than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC: 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 BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC?
- BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,091 to it, the largest being JOHN W AND EFFIE E SPEAS MEMORIAL TRUST ($42,191). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $162,091 in grants to BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC?
- JOHN W AND EFFIE E SPEAS MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $42,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 10 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