Missouri · Nonprofit
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,938,575 to it, the largest being SCHOOL SMART KC INC ($1,377,654). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Oppenstein Brothers Foundationshared funderslocal
- Longview Foundation for Education in World Affairs & Intl Understanding Incportfolio match
- Icivics Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 71% · 2018 66% · 2019 73% · 2020 79% · 2021 87% · 2022 86% · 2023 91% · 2024 94% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $84k → $210k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY’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
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 93% · 2019 86% · 2020 66% · 2021 38% · 2022 71% · 2023 56% — 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
36% of CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
85% of CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Oppenstein Brothers Foundationshared funderslocalMO · backs 92 organizations that share your funders · funds 99 organizations near you
- Longview Foundation for Education in World Affairs & Intl Understanding Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Icivics Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bouncer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas B Fordham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Campaign for Great Public Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Accelerate Great Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cambiar Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blossom Hill Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Civic Leadership Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National School Choice Awareness Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Citizens of the World Charter Schoo · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY?
- CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,938,575 to it, the largest being SCHOOL SMART KC INC ($1,377,654). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,938,575 in grants to CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY?
- SCHOOL SMART KC INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,377,654 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY 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 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing