Kansas · Nonprofit
CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC
CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,973 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ($112,800). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $816k
- Net assets
- $471k
What Children First Ceo Kansas Inc does
Mission
Assist low income students to succeed in school
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provide services to low-income students and their families, so that students can be successful in school through the efforts of 1) mental health professionals working in 15 non-public schools in central and southeast kansas, 2) a continuum of care system addressing homelessness, employment, and training to parents about financial literacy and improving their resources, and 3) supportive services for emergency food boxes, coats, shoes, school support.
$2,067,455 spent$864,494 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,067,455.
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 2023 to 2024, from $339k to $471k (+39%).
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: 2019 51% · 2020 13% · 2021 31% · 2022 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $24k → $77k.
5 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
50% 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 CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 84% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 44% · 2022 35% · 2023 37% — 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
39% of CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
68% of CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% 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 CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC: 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 CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC?
- CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,973 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ($112,800). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $815,973 in grants to CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC is the largest funder on record, with $112,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 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