Missouri · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY
COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,142,675 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($1,900,675). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $80M
What Community Builders of Kansas City does
Mission
Community Builders of Kansas City changes the landscape by igniting and fueling equity, access, opportunity and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cbkc is responsible for the oversight and operation of nearly 650 units of subsidized, affordable, multi-family rental housing. The demographic of a single parent with children comprises 80% of the households at 8 of the 10 multi-family properties. The units accommodate the needs of low to moderately low-income residents. One of the multi-family properties accommodates the needs of low to moderate income seniors. Another project serves those with special needs. Occupancy levels at the 10 multi-family properties were genreally maintained at or above 90% for 2023. Cbkc's rental housing has consistenly received above average ratings from the missouri housing development commission. Construction of an additional 64 units of residential housing was completed in november of 2022. Renovation of 80 duplexes was completed in 2023.
$9,751,461 spent$1,068,970 earned by the program77% of program spendingCbkc also owns and maintains a shopping center located in an area of kansas city which had no grocery store or other services for the community. Cbkc achieved shopping center occupancy of more than ninety-three percent (93%) and thus maintained services provided to the community during 2023. Today the shopping center serves over 200,000 underserved people in the urban core. Cbkc has continued working on containing operating expenses in order to attract desirable tenants. During 2020, cbkc purchased the assets of a grocery store and continued its operation to provide food source to the community as well as jobs to approximately 50 employees. In 2022, cbkc purchased a second grocery store which also employs approximately 50 people. Cbkc also owns and manages 85,000 square feet of office space. Cbkc has leased office space to a significant number of not-for-profits that provide services to the surrounding underserved community. During 2019, cbkc took initial intitative to acquire and develop commercial property on an 11-acre blighted and distressed area of the brush creek corridor in kansas city, missouri to improve an underserved community. In 2023, cbkc initiated site work for the…
$2,932,230 spent$3,406,138 earned by the program23% of program spendingTo date the mount cleveland redevelopment initiative has generated a substance abuse treatment center; a 143,000 square foot federally qualified health center; a child and family development center; expanded office space; retail services and 80 units of affordable, very attractive duplexes and townhouses all as part of the mount cleveland redevelopment initiative. It is clear that the mount cleveland initiative continues to spur the revitalization of the urban core. Cbkc currently is undertaking an initiative to improve the brush creek corridor by developing a 60,000/250,000 square foot campus located in an opportunity zone. With an initial investment of $20 million and a projected built out campus of $70-$90 million comprised of commercial/mixed use properties, the initiative will target as tenants non-profit organizations, foundations, and public sector businesses that provide services and employment opportunities for the urban core. At the end of 2020, cbkc was awarded notice of lihtc funding for renovations at the cleveland. Construction is going to begin november 2024 with expected completion date 1st qtr of 2026.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,683,691.
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 2019 to 2020, from $33M to $67M (+105%).
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 12% · 2019 16% · 2020 1% · 2021 15% · 2022 18% · 2023 26% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Emmet Pierson Jr
President/CEO
Board chair
Ken Bacchus
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $75k → $950k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF 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
COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 58% · 2021 81% · 2022 57% · 2023 58% — 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 COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY'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
75% of COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF 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. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY has grown faster than half of the 817 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 817 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 37 related entities
- Ivanhoe Garden Apartments LLC · disregarded
- Shops on Blue Parkway LLC · disregarded
- Cbkc Commercial LLC · disregarded
- Blue Parkway Towne Center Office Building II LLC · disregarded
- East Village LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY?
- COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,142,675 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($1,900,675). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $4,142,675 in grants to COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,900,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF 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.
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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 8 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