Missouri · Nonprofit
ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION
ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,218 to it, the largest being HARRY AND HELENA MESSICK CHARITABLE TR ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $441k
What Elmo Betterment Corporation does
Mission
Support the general public
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Fish fry fundraisers - raised funds for community
$6,988 spent27% of program spending4th of july fundraiser - raised funds for community while providing a communityevent
$17,471 spent69% of program spendingBreakfast - raised funds for building maintenance while providing a community event
$993 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,452.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $270k to $404k (+50%).
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.
100% of ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $15k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION’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
ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION
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.
Public support
99%
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 ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION: 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 ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION?
- ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,218 to it, the largest being HARRY AND HELENA MESSICK CHARITABLE TR ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $93,218 in grants to ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION?
- HARRY AND HELENA MESSICK CHARITABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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