Missouri · Nonprofit
Essential Families Midwest Inc
Essential Families Midwest Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $604,936 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($199,936). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $605k
- Net assets
- $526k
What Essential Families Midwest Inc does
Mission
Essential Economic Mobility Program, Essential Resources, Essential Telehealth for the summary
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Essential Families Midwest Inc. confronted urgent challenges facing Kansas Citys underserved families through innovative services in 2024. By efficiently leveraging grants, our team delivered life-changing Essential Economic Mobility support in three core areas: Essential Resources: Over 600 families gained food, financial relief, digital skills, and access to stable housing and health care. Essential Telehealth: More than 800 individuals received trauma-informed counseling, and crisis intervention, regardless of insurance status or transportation barriers. Essential Families stands apart with its commitment to 24/7 real-time impact reporting, enabling funders and stakeholders to track measurable outcomes and transparent progress at any moment. This accountability ensures that every dollar invested translates into sustained community benefit. We urge Grantmakers and funders: Compare our 2024 results with other supported organizations, youll see Essential Families delivers measurable, impactful, and desperately needed services to children and families who otherwise would go unserved. Continued investment is essential to expand these vital safety nets, address persistent waitlists,…
$270,753 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $270,753.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $160k to $967k (+506%).
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 86% · 2023 87% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Essential Families Midwest Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Terri English-Yancy
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $55k.
From the IRS filings of Essential Families Midwest 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
Essential Families Midwest Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 Essential Families Midwest Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 64% — 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
81% of Essential Families Midwest Inc's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Essential Families Midwest Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Essential Families Midwest Inc
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
40% 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 Essential Families Midwest Inc: 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 Essential Families Midwest Inc?
- Essential Families Midwest Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $604,936 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($199,936). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Essential Families Midwest Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $604,936 in grants to Essential Families Midwest Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Essential Families Midwest Inc?
- JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND is the largest funder on record, with $199,936 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Essential Families Midwest 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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