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Friends of the River - Kansas City

Friends of the River - Kansas City (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($13,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$179k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$21k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Friends of the River - Kansas City does

Mission

Celebrate the Heritage and promote the development of the Kansas City Riverfront through education, Community Outreach, Volunteer Commitment and fundraising.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Gathering the community together through the KC Riverfront Festival which celebrates the Kansas City Riverfront through history and education, conservation recreation and entertainment.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

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 ($401k) Expenses 100 ($396k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2021 Revenue 45 ($179k) Expenses 47 ($184k) Net assets 18 ($21k)
20172021
Revenue (45)Expenses (47)Net assets (18)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.

$132k
$127k
20172021
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
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 44%. 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 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
−$5k
’21
3.7
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
2

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Friends of the River - 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

Friends of the River - Kansas City leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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 Friends of the River - Kansas City.

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

57% of Friends of the River - Kansas City'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.

MO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Friends of the River - 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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of the River - Kansas City?
Friends of the River - Kansas City (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($13,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Friends of the River - Kansas City have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $23,000 in grants to Friends of the River - Kansas City.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of the River - Kansas City?
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of the River - 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 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