Missouri · Nonprofit
CORNERSTONES OF CARE
CORNERSTONES OF CARE (Missouri) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,743,262 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($6,040,329). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Cornerstones of Care does
Mission
Partnering for safe and healthy communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foster care program provided services in cass, jackson, boone, cole, randolph and howard counties in missouri.Cornerstones of Care improves child safety and wellness of abused and neglected children under the care of the children's division. Additionally, Cornerstones of Care finds permanent homes for these children.services are provided to children of all ethnicities, in the parent's home, relative home, kinship home, foster home, adoptive home, residential setting, as well as group home settings.Cornerstones of Care remedies the effects of abuse and neglect, and prevents future abuse and neglect, by partnering with the community to provide therapy, parent education, substance abuse treatment, crisis intervention, child education, and behavior intervention.outcomes:91.6% of children will not re-enter care32% of children will reach permanency99.68% of children will not have a child abuse and neglect report while in custody.the Cornerstones of Care kansas foster care program provides foster care, reintegration, and adoption case management services to 741 children and families in wyandotte, leavenworth and atchison counties. The primary goal of the program is to provide…
$20,246,255 spentof which $3,754,272 as grants$6,712,254 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe therapeutic school options within Cornerstones of Care are gillis (k-8) and ozanam (9-12). These schools provide educational and therapeutic services to 110 students who are on an individualized education plan. These students are contractually placed by over 32 public schools and 10 charter schools. While students are in our care, not only do we educate them in core subject areas such as math, science, reading, language arts, and social studies. The students are also exposed to a variety of elective classes such as physical education, art, music, and horticulture. The classrooms are self-contained and supported by additional staff as well as the classroom teacher. Each student is assigned a therapist, and they receive 30 minutes of individual therapy as well as group therapy per week.build trybe, is a career technical education team and is a mentorship community that builds health and independence by empowering youth with employable skills. It is a bridge connecting youth, who lack a stable support system, to opportunity. Our team of trade experts and community partners connect youth to three skill-based career paths: culinary, construction, and landscape. The students…
$7,122,653 spentof which $110,953 as grants$2,237,418 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe independent living facilities of the pathways programs provided 15,582 treatment days for 85 teens/young adults in a variety of transitional living facilities in the kansas city, ks/mo areas.the residential treatment program provides a structured and supportive environment for youth who have experienced trauma and are struggling with a mental health diagnosis. The program focuses on safety and provides youth with new skills and tools to help process trauma and loss, manage emotions and develop healthy coping skills. Treatment includes individual, group, expressive and family therapy, as well as medication management, case management services, psycho-education and life skills. Each youth has an individualized treatment plan and treatment goals. Our residential program has been designated as a qualified residential treatment program by meeting standards, demonstrating best practices, and maintaining certification in a trauma informed model.the residential treatment programs provided a total of 14,490 treatment days for 185 unduplicated children served by the various programs.the family focused services provided in the aftercare program served 63 unduplicated children.
$7,867,147 spentof which $796,165 as grants$3,729,030 earned by the program14% of program spendingThese program expenses are attributable to other programs services furthering the mission of fostering safe and healthy communities. To further this mission Cornerstones of Care provides the following family support and counseling services to a wide array of counties in western missouri and eastern kansas.these programs include:show me healthy relationships is a five year project funded by the u.s. Department of health and human services, administration for children and families. It is a partnership between the university of missouri extension, university of missouri department of human development and family science, and three community family agencies who have collaborated to assist singles and couples to have happy and healthy relationships. Our courses reach twenty-one counties throughout missouri.family services - recognizing the importance of a strong family unit, our in-home family services program helps kansas families who are struggling to safely alleviate challenging situations.home based prevention services is a service designed to keep families together. These services provide much needed assistance to provide support to individuals and families with history of trauma,…
$20,062,090 spentof which $2,729,179 as grants$2,237,417 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,298,145.
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 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $33M (+26%).
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 2% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 80% · 2022 74% · 2023 70% · 2024 69% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of CORNERSTONES OF CARE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 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
Merideth Rose
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.7M.
14 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cornerstones of Care Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CORNERSTONES OF CARE raised.
From the IRS filings of CORNERSTONES OF CARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
CORNERSTONES OF CARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 CORNERSTONES OF CARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 34% · 2019 26% · 2020 42% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 38% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% of CORNERSTONES OF CARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
64% of CORNERSTONES OF CARE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CORNERSTONES OF CARE's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 33 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CORNERSTONES OF CARE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $606k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$458k
- Department of Agriculture$147k
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 CORNERSTONES OF CARE
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cornerstones of Care Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE?
- CORNERSTONES OF CARE (Missouri) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,743,262 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($6,040,329). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORNERSTONES OF CARE have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $18,743,262 in grants to CORNERSTONES OF CARE, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNERSTONES OF CARE?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,040,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNERSTONES OF CARE 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 98 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing