Missouri · Nonprofit
Empowering Parents Kansas City
Empowering Parents Kansas City (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,399 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($601,899). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $530k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $612k
- Net assets
- $-56215
What Empowering Parents Kansas City does
Mission
Empowering Parent believes strong families are the foundation of strong communities, therefore we restore and unite families by providing therapeutic, parent aide, and mentor services
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Parent Aide Program: EPKC utilized research-based programs to assist our clients that are referred to us, either through Childrens Division or through Circuit Court custody matters. We built goals and outcomes per our grant with the Childrens Services Fund which continue to be implemented.
$161,248 spentof which $78,909 as grants$156,738 earned by the program36% of program spendingTherapeutic Program: Our nonprofit is dedicated to providing essentials mental health services to our community, focusing on children and families affected by abuse. We have served nearly 400 people, offering individual and family services, that have been impacted by the devastating of physical and sexual abuse. Our impact is evident in our success stories that emerge from our work. We have witnessed significant improvements in the mental well- being of children, helping them rebuild their lives.
$268,928 spentof which $103,311 as grants$261,406 earned by the program61% of program spendingCapacty Building through Childrens Division
$12,236 spentof which $11,894 as grants$11,894 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $442,412.
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 2019 to 2020, from $45k to $112k (+149%).
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: 2019 11% · 2020 17% · 2021 24% · 2022 40% · 2023 41% · 2024 -1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of Empowering Parents Kansas City’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Lisa Erickson
CEO
Board chair
Phil Hernandez
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $169k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Empowering Parents Kansas City’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
Empowering Parents Kansas City leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
100% 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 Empowering Parents Kansas City.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
100% of Empowering Parents Kansas City's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
Empowering Parents Kansas City runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Empowering Parents Kansas City
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Empowering Parents Kansas City: 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 Empowering Parents Kansas City?
- Empowering Parents Kansas City (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,399 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($601,899). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Empowering Parents Kansas City have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $612,399 in grants to Empowering Parents Kansas City, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Empowering Parents Kansas City?
- JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND is the largest funder on record, with $601,899 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Empowering Parents Kansas City 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 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