Texas · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR THE MISSING
CENTER FOR THE MISSING (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,157 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($84,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $865k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $429k
- Net assets
- $801k
What Center for the Missing does
Mission
The organization's purpose is to bring hope and healing to the missing and their families through crisis intervention, prevention and community education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Respond-tcm provides crisis case management and on-going support to aid the reunification of families and to facilitate the healing process for recovered missing persons and the searching families who need hope.2025 services include: working 337 new missing person cases (including persons for whom emergency alerts were activated) involving 86 missing children, 251 missing adults, and serving 4,044 family members. 61 families were reunited as a direct result of tcms services and actions
Prepare-tcm provides services and support to law enforcement investigators and agencies through training and houston regional emergency alert activations (amber, silver, clear, and endangered missing persons alerts). 2025 services included: 4 amber alerts for at risk missing children(100% safe recovery rate);33 silver alerts for at risk adults with dementia (88% safe recovery rate);9 clear alerts for endangered adults (78% safe recovery rate); 5 endangered missing persons alerts for at-risk individuals with intellectual disabilities (100% safe recovery rate); provided 14 local law enforcement trainings and presentations for 346 officers on how and when to activate the houston regional emergency alert systems.
Impact-tcm distributes child id kits and safety publications to children, parents/caregivers, eucators, and caring community members; provides safety education to teach children how to stay safer in real life and the digital world; teaches parents how to safeguard and monitor their children in real life and online, as well as what to do if their child goes missing. 2025 services included: distributing 749 safety brochures and 2958 child id kits, and presenting safety presentations attended by 1423 children and 352 adults.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $692k to $858k (+24%).
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 22% · 2019 20% · 2020 23% · 2021 35% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% · 2024 12% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CENTER FOR THE MISSING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Melissa Turnquist
CEO
Board chair
Kelly Opre
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $8k → $76k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 CENTER FOR THE MISSING’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
CENTER FOR THE MISSING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
41% 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 CENTER FOR THE MISSING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 78% · 2019 44% · 2020 29% · 2021 31% · 2022 30% · 2023 39% — 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
47% of CENTER FOR THE MISSING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
63% of CENTER FOR THE MISSING's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CENTER FOR THE MISSING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR THE MISSING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Department of Justice$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR THE MISSING
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 Texas
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
96%
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 CENTER FOR THE MISSING: 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 CENTER FOR THE MISSING?
- CENTER FOR THE MISSING (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,157 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($84,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR THE MISSING have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $429,157 in grants to CENTER FOR THE MISSING, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR THE MISSING?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR THE MISSING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 29 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