Missouri · Nonprofit
EASTER SEALS MIDWEST
EASTER SEALS MIDWEST (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,720,393 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,187,595). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $89M
What Easter Seals Midwest does
Mission
To assist individuals with developmental disabilities, including autism, how to learn, live, work, and participate in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Easter Seals Midwest merged with center for hearing and speech, inc. The center for hearing & speech provides a variety of communication services for people across the lifespan aimed at early identification, evaluation, treatment, and ongoing support. Programs include speech-language services, treating speech and language disorders in adults and children; school screening, which screens school-aged children for vision and hearing loss; clinical audiology services, which evaluates and treats hearing loss for children and adults; and hearing conservation, which tests the hearing of workers in high-noise environments according to osha requirements.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Community living services provide homes with on-site support where adults with developmental disabilities, including autism, can live independent and productive lives in the community. The program also provides training and support to people with disabilities to help them acquire valuable skills. Individuals are assisted in living in independent, yet supportive environments, learning various home management skills and developing a social support network.
$70,272,500 spent$85,859,018 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe autism services division works with individuals with autism, as well as their families, to help them develop communication, social skills, and behavior modification. Autism services customizes its services to meet each individual's and family's need for support.
$12,945,042 spent$12,707,087 earned by the program14% of program spendingEmployment services develops employment opportunities for individuals in the community, locates paying positions, and provides on-the-job support. Jobs are carefully matched to meet each individual's work preferences, skills and support needs.
$8,085,993 spent$10,416,250 earned by the program9% of program spendingThe home visiting program works with families who have children with and without disabilities 3 years of age and under, to help link them to additional resources in the community, to help build their knowledge and skill base in regards to parenting, and to model appropriate parenting skills. Trained parent educators visit the homes of eligible families and offer a variety of services, which include but are not limited to: group training sessions targeted at various topics dealing with child development, creating healthy families, and networking opportunities for the families; and resources for children in the home, including books, developmentally appropriate toys for their child, and incentives which may include certificates that they may use to purchase items for their children such as toys, books, safety items, safe cribs, etc.
$1,584,090 spent$1,686,627 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe center for hearing & speech provides a variety of communication services for people across the lifespan aimed at early identification, evaluation, treatment, and ongoing support. Programs include speech-language services, treating speech and language disorders in adults and children; school screening, which screens school-aged children for vision and hearing loss; clinical audiology services, which evaluates and treats hearing loss for children and adults; and hearing conservation, which tests the hearing of workers in high-noise environments according to osha requirements.
$295,384 spent$235,338 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,183,009.
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.
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 $24M to $61M (+159%).
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: 2022 11% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Wendy Sullivan
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Corey Hamilton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $425k → $1.0M.
12 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 EASTER SEALS MIDWEST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
EASTER SEALS MIDWEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 EASTER SEALS MIDWEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 48% · 2019 62% · 2020 44% · 2021 95% · 2022 22% · 2023 22% — 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 EASTER SEALS MIDWEST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
78% of EASTER SEALS MIDWEST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.8M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding EASTER SEALS MIDWEST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $700k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
- Department of Health and Human Services$200k
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 EASTER SEALS MIDWEST
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTER SEALS MIDWEST?
- EASTER SEALS MIDWEST (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,720,393 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,187,595). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EASTER SEALS MIDWEST have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $26,720,393 in grants to EASTER SEALS MIDWEST, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTER SEALS MIDWEST?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,187,595 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTER SEALS MIDWEST 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 44 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