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DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC

DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,509,387 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($1,446,399). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$18M
10/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Drumm Center for Children Inc does

Mission

Provide stable, nurturing environment for children in foster care. Keep siblings together whenever possible. Inspire life-long connections by being a resource for children and families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide stable, nurturing environment for children in foster care. Keep siblings together whenever possible. Inspire life-long connections by being a resource for children and families.

    $2,614,822 spent$182,699 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,614,822.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 159 ($3.0M) Expenses 115 ($2.0M) Net assets 106 ($17M)2019 Revenue 122 ($2.3M) Expenses 124 ($2.1M) Net assets 108 ($17M)2020 Revenue 110 ($2.1M) Expenses 144 ($2.5M) Net assets 107 ($17M)2021 Revenue 194 ($3.7M) Expenses 142 ($2.4M) Net assets 119 ($19M)2022 Revenue 192 ($3.7M) Expenses 164 ($2.8M) Net assets 116 ($19M)2023 Revenue 171 ($3.3M) Expenses 192 ($3.3M) Net assets 121 ($19M)2024 Revenue 161 ($3.1M) Expenses 213 ($3.7M) Net assets 118 ($19M)2025 Revenue 152 ($2.9M) Expenses 205 ($3.5M) Net assets 116 ($18M)
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Revenue (152)Expenses (205)Net assets (116)

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 $19M to $21M (+9%).

$18M
$19M
$20M
$19M
$21M
$21M
$21M
$20M
$20M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 17% · 2022 28% · 2023 17% · 2024 19% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$194k
’17
$1.1M
’18
$188k
’19
−$360k
’20
$1.3M
’21
$850k
’22
−$29k
’23
−$581k
’24
−$622k
’25
0.1
months of
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

James B Smith

Executive director

Board chair

Jake Loveless

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111215151213141311
Joined·+1+8+0+0+1+3+0+1
No longer listed·05030213
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $207k → $400k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN 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

DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC.

58%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 50% · 2019 50% · 2020 60% · 2021 77% · 2022 86% · 2023 73% — 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

50% of DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

90% of DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

CA
MO
VA
DE
AR
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $627k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $939k on record.

Federal$939k
grants $939kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$939k

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 DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC

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In Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 19%Fundraising 7%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

64%

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

  • Drumm Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC?
DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,509,387 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($1,446,399). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,509,387 in grants to DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC?
JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,446,399 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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