Missouri · Nonprofit
Compass INC
Compass INC (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,338 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($267,710). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $205k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $292k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Compass INC does
Mission
To provide aspiring musicians, singers and songwriters with access to programs that improve proficiency and success in their areas(s) of interest and expertise.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Compass Music Camp began in 2012. The program has had a total of 320 participants from 2012-2019 and 2022-2025. The camp is one week long and there have been 11 camp sessions. There were no activities held in 2020 and 2021. Camp session 13 will take place July 13, 2026.Music Camp is a seven day program focused on giving mid-Missouri youth the opportunity to learn, create, and perform. Camp participants will have instrument lessons; theory, history and songwriting classes; sound, recording, art, and social media workshops; screen printing, and band rehearsal. This program is designed for campers to experience the joy of writing and playing music led by musicians in our community. Musical equipment has been donated for temporary use each year. The equipment is used for band rehearsals, instrument lessons, workshops and classes. (drum sets, sound systems, microphones, recording studio equipment. DAddario Foundation has made in-kind donations 2012-2016.
$91,843 spent$93,110 earned by the program46% of program spendingIntergenerational Rock Band Choir began in 2022. The program has had a total of 297 participants from 2022-2025. The choir rehearses once each week for 8 weeks and there have been three sessions. The Compass Intergenerational Rock Band Choir is comprised of community members from ages 8-80 All participants will be singing as a choir backed by an instrumental band and will perform 12 songs that span from the 50s to now. No music training experience is needed to enjoy this fun and exciting musical program
$85,241 spent$86,418 earned by the program42% of program spendingJam Night began in 2022. The program has had a total of 86 participants from 2022-2025. The program is two days and there have been 3 sessions. Jam Night is an overnight event for musical youth, ages 9-14. During this time, students will participate in music games, a songwriting class, karaoke, watch a music themed movie and split into small ensembles with a goal to write a song (or twoor more), that will be performed in the morning. Musical equipment has been donated for temporary use each session. The equipment is used for band rehearsals. (sound systems, microphones).
$24,683 spent$25,023 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $201,767.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $265k to $41k (−84%).
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: 2021 85% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Compass INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Phylshawn Johnson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $223k → $16k.
1 of 5 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 Compass INC’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
Compass INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Compass INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Compass INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
Compass INC's revenue fell 21% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Compass INC
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In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Compass INC: 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 Compass INC?
- Compass INC (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,338 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($267,710). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Compass INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $292,338 in grants to Compass INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Compass INC?
- VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $267,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Compass INC 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 2021–2025), 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