Missouri · Nonprofit
Childrens Grove
Childrens Grove (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,244 to it, the largest being Boone Electric Community Trust ($23,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Childrens Grove does
Mission
Childrens Grove is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire a culture of kindness and support the mental and emotional health of young people. Guided by the belief that a single act of kindness can change a life forever CG encourages individuals to practice compassion respect empathy and compassion in daily life. CG sponsors kindness clubs in nearly every elementary and middle school provides kindness libraries and partners with schools to install painted playground messages that reach thousands of children each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Kindness Libraries: Childrens Grove has donated 1500 books worth approximately $7,000 to public and private elementary schools preschools and daycares in Boone County MO as well as public service agencies that work with young children. The books which are carefully selected by a panel of educators social workers and community members are chosen to appropriately present goodwill gentleness and compassion.
$7,045 spent26% of program spendingKindness benches: One Childrens Grove project invites schools hospitals businesses and faith-based communities to install Butterfly benches on their property. Signs accompany the benches bearing a symbol that reflects the partnership with Childrens Grove to create a nurturing and kind environment in which young people can thrive. We installed one bench this year and have a total of 15 benches around the community.
$5,988 spent23% of program spendingPlayground Art: Childrens Grove commissioned a local artist to design and paint messages on the playgrounds of nine elementary schools after selecting three pieces of artwork from a potential nine choices. These paintings allow students to view positive colorful kindness-oriented messages every time they go outside for recess. Message examples: "I am brave," "I believe in me," "Kindness changes everything."
$5,500 spent21% of program spendingKindness Clubs: We believe you are never too young to help spread the message of kindness. Elementary and middle school students in the Columbia MO public school system can get involved in their schools Kindness Club to support kindness projects or programs that are particularly suited to their schools and community. This year over 700 children have participated. Childrens Grove provides the supplies to implement activities from an educator-designed curriculum which focuses on kindness to friends family self school pets and animals and the environment.
$5,121 spent19% of program spendingKindness in Business Awards: these awards given annually since 2020 celebrate Boone County MO businesses organizations and nonprofits that show and promote kindness in dealings with employees youth and the community at large. We partner with Missouri Business Alert to honor those whose extraordinary kindness merits recognition.
$2,932 spent11% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,586.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Childrens Grove’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
Childrens Grove leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 Childrens Grove.
“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.
Where its funders are
87% of Childrens Grove's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Childrens Grove runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Childrens Grove
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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Childrens Grove?
- Childrens Grove (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,244 to it, the largest being Boone Electric Community Trust ($23,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Childrens Grove have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,244 in grants to Childrens Grove, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Childrens Grove?
- Boone Electric Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $23,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Childrens Grove 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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