Missouri · Nonprofit
DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL
DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,554 to it, the largest being SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL ($360,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $727k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Demolay International does
Mission
Demolay International is an organization dedicated to preparing young men to lead successful, happy, and productive lives. Demolay opens doors for young men aged 12 to 21 by developing leadership skills so vitally needed in society today. Continued on sch o. Demolay bases its vision, mission, and purpose on 7 cardinal virtues; filial love, reverence for sacred things, courtesy, comradeship, fidelity, cleanness, and patriotism. Demolay combines this serious mission with a fun approach that builds important bonds of friendship among members in more than 1,000 chapters worldwide. In demolay, young men learn personal responsibility, budgeting, leadership, athletics, public speaking, and social skills. Demolay members also have fun in a safe social environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Membership & chapter services: costs of providing program and application material to members; materials are provided to educate, build character, and create fellowship among the members.
$429,929 spent$660,209 earned by the program39% of program spendingThe supreme council & congress: costs incurred in connection with the development of rules & regulations aimed at providing rewarding programs to youth to encourage the necessary and proper development into manhood.
$660,147 spent$487,113 earned by the program59% of program spendingHonors & awards: cost incurred in connection with awards given to members for various achievements; the achievements include leadership, meritorious services, heroism, and saving lives.
$22,038 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,112,114.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.4M to $3.0M (−14%).
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 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Alan Kelvin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $23k → $77k.
1 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $195k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Demolay Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL raised.
From the IRS filings of DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 81% · 2019 66% · 2020 37% · 2021 36% · 2022 36% · 2023 32% — 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
64% of DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $743 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
DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL: 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 DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL?
- DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,554 to it, the largest being SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL ($360,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $726,554 in grants to DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL?
- SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL is the largest funder on record, with $360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL 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 18 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