Missouri · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI
CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,543 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC ($560,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $517k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $644k
- Net assets
- $508k
What Children's Education Alliance of Missouri does
Mission
Children's Education Alliance of Missouri is committed to improving missouri's k-12 education system by advancing education policies that will ensure all children have access to a high quality education now.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ceam is building a network of concerned parents, business and civic leaders, and other stakeholders through our outreach and mobilization efforts. Ceam connects with other organizations such as chambers of commerce, church groups, schools, and others about the need for improvement and innovation in our current educational system. Ceam reaches constituents through live events, phone calls, door-to-door canvasing, one-on-one meetings, social media, and traditional media. Ceam helps parents and other mobilize for change to administrative and legislative education policy in missouri.
$273,042 spent56% of program spendingSee schedule o.ceam staff members travel to various parts of missouri to help potential supporters and advocates understand the nature and process of legislative policy change. Advocacy training provided by ceam helps empower parents and others to effectively engage in advocating for their own children and for changes to the educational structure that would support a family's right to choose educational settings for their children. Ceam staff monitors the educational advocacy landscape for opportunities for parents and other advocates to amplify their voices and tell their stories. In 2023, ceam trained additional parents in policy and communication. From those parents, many shared their personal stories through social media and in direct meetings with decision makers including school boards, the state board of education, staff members from the department of elementary and secondary education and with their elected officials.
$211,630 spentof which $669 as grants43% of program spendingCeam monitors opportunities for parents to take action and connect with elected leaders. Ceam helps facilitate parent advocacy during each legislative session. Ceam organizes and engages parents in rallies and other events. Ceam helps parents connect with the media to submit letters to the editors of many newspapers.
$4,083 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $488,755.
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 2021 to 2022, from $586k to $817k (+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: 2020 12% · 2021 13% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI’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. 4 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
Laura Slay
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 74% · 2019 57% · 2020 83% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI is better cushioned than half 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 CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
22%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI?
- CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,543 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC ($560,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $643,543 in grants to CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI?
- AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI 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 12 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