Missouri · Nonprofit
MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK
MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK (Missouri) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $425,813 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($218,184). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $426k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Missouri Child Care Resource and Referral Network does
Mission
Child care aware of missouri raises the quality of early child care educational experiences in missouri by improving child care services - through training, education, quality standards, coaching, business support, and public policy work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships - teach missouri, cda, and home visiting - the teach early childhood missouri scholarship program provides scholarships to child care educators seeking to further their early childhood education through credentials, certificates, and college degrees. The goal of teach missouri is to increase the quality of child care delivered by educating and empowering child care educators. This is the only national scholarship designed to serve child care professionals who work full-time and are part-time college students. Teach missouri works with the scholarship recipient and sponsoring employer to support annual college credit hours and provides a scholarship counselor to assist in navigating the higher education process. (continued on schedule o)(scholarships - teach missouri, cda, and home visiting continued):the scholarship enables the child care workforce to increase compensation and retention through education. Success is measured by completion of education, an increase in annual wages, and increased retention in sponsoring child care programs. Currently, the college credit bearing scholarships support the national child development associate credential (cda), credit hours,…
$1,573,926 spentof which $848,419 as grants48% of program spendingChild care keeps missouri working (cckmw) - as child care keeps missouri working (cckmw) enters its second full year, it has expanded its reach and impact. Building on collaborative partnerships with kids win missouri and organizations such as tootris, it continues to evolve in how it supports families and employers. Cckmw now integrates child care referrals, subsidy navigation, and community-based outreach under one umbrella - the missouri childhood resource and referral (mcrr) service, operated through a statewide call center and regional community partners (rcps). The rcps mirror the call center's function but provide face-to-face, in-person assistance in high-need and high-subsidy areas.(continued on schedule o)(child care keeps missouri working [cckmw] continued):together, these efforts help families navigate subsidy applications successfully locate both subsidized and unsubsidized care, and access local supports. Cckmw continues to offer families the education and resources they need to recognize safe, high-quality child care, empowering them to make confident choices for their children. Employers also utilize cckmw to address their workforce challenges through consulting…
$1,405,012 spent$142,350 earned by the program43% of program spendingTraining and support - professional development and support were delivered statewide through various initiatives, including the missouri supporting early childhood administrators (mo-seca) program, show me child care resources (smccr), and nutrition and physical activity self-assessment for child care (go napsacc). Mo-seca, a collaborative project sponsored by the missouri department of elementary and secondary education (dese) office of childhood and supported by the university of missouri-kansas city institute for human development's early childhood innovation center, was created to strengthen the business acumen of early childhood administrators.(continued on schedule o)(training and support continued): this program equips participants with the knowledge, skills, and connections needed to lead and operate sustainable high-quality child care programs. Child care aware of missouri (ccamo) provided a leadership and human resource training child care businesses these trainings were delivered face-to-face during mini conferences. Show me child care resources (smccr) is a subscription-based shared services website for child care educators, directors, and owners, managed by ccamo…
$321,699 spentof which $71,725 as grants$147,892 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,300,637.
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 $7.6M to $9.4M (+23%).
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: 2024 77% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Robin Phillips
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Shannon Weber
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $27k → $36k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK’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
MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 44% · 2023 83% — 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 MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
77% of MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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
MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK?
- MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK (Missouri) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $425,813 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($218,184). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $425,813 in grants to MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $218,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK 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 13 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