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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,000 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.6M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$355k
Net assets
$3.3M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri does

Mission

The mission of the edc is to drive economic development and create an environment in which businesses and residents can prosper and grow in kansas city, missouri.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Land development and blight remediation; business attraction, retention and expansion; implementation of strategic initiatives such as the blue river valley corridor and launchkc.

    $3,816,122 spentof which $1,716,748 as grants$405,551 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,816,122.

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 ($4.7M) Expenses 100 ($4.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 114 ($5.4M) Expenses 118 ($5.5M) Net assets 91 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 100 ($4.7M) Expenses 101 ($4.8M) Net assets 87 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 107 ($5.0M) Expenses 98 ($4.6M) Net assets 115 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 156 ($7.4M) Expenses 160 ($7.5M) Net assets 106 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 83 ($3.9M) Expenses 97 ($4.6M) Net assets 68 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 143 ($6.8M) Expenses 138 ($6.5M) Net assets 84 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 117 ($5.5M) Expenses 102 ($4.8M) Net assets 129 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 161 ($7.6M) Expenses 138 ($6.5M) Net assets 195 ($3.3M)
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Revenue (161)Expenses (138)Net assets (195)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.9M to $7.2M (+47%).

$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.8M
$3.8M
$2.9M
$4.9M
$7.2M
$7.3M
$8.0M
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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: 2017 84% · 2018 75% · 2019 87% · 2020 82% · 2021 46%. 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.

$25k
’17
−$152k
’18
−$65k
’19
$462k
’20
−$138k
’21
−$642k
’22
$275k
’23
$747k
’24
$1.1M
’25
9.6
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

Tracey Lewis

President & CEO

Board chair

Bridgette Williams

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed141416161313131414
Joined·+1+2+8+2+1+2+3+5
No longer listed·10851225
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $0.

From the IRS filings of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.

“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

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.

MO
KS

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

’17
’22
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $968k on record.

Federal$968k
grants $968kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Commerce$968k

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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 41%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Edc Loan Corporation · exempt
  • Edc Strategic Initiatives Fund · exempt
  • City of Kansas City Missouri · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI?
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,000 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $355,000 in grants to ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI?
THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 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 3 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