Missouri · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES FIRST
COMMUNITIES FIRST (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,699 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($142,708). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $525k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Communities First does
Mission
To facilitate pathways out of poverty and to promote justice and equity for now and future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided supports and services to help keep youth safe to promote healing to reduce violence and to build resiliency. Services provided included remediation tutoring STEAM trauma-informed group meetings and individual counseling parenting education sports and recreational activities to 60 youth. Special outreach events serving over 2000 youth
$126,470 spentof which $126,470 as grants$126,470 earned by the program31% of program spendingProvided harm reduction outreach referral and benefits navigation to unhoused individuals with substance use or mental health issues. Served approximately 900 individuals per month.
$241,821 spentof which $241,821 as grants$241,821 earned by the program58% of program spendingProgram expenses staff salaries. No grant funds. Loan of 127053 and donations of 9494
$46,347 spent$46,347 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $414,638.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $49k to $77k (+57%).
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: 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMMUNITIES FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Maggie Hourd-Bryant
Executive Director
Board chair
Aaron Gardner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $55k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 COMMUNITIES FIRST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
COMMUNITIES FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 COMMUNITIES FIRST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of COMMUNITIES FIRST's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COMMUNITIES FIRST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITIES FIRST
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITIES FIRST: 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 COMMUNITIES FIRST?
- COMMUNITIES FIRST (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,699 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($142,708). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES FIRST have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $169,699 in grants to COMMUNITIES FIRST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES FIRST?
- AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $142,708 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES FIRST 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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