Kansas · Nonprofit
Grace United Community Ministries Inc
Grace United Community Ministries Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,552,251 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($852,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $233k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $491k
What Grace United Community Ministries Inc does
Mission
Work hand in hand with families and individuals in our northeast KCMO community to address their physical, educational and spiritual needs so as to empower them to break the cycle of poverty and live a purposeful life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Childrens education - for after school tutoring, students are transported from school to GUCM and afterwards are driven home. Meals and various acctivities prepare the students for highly structured sessions. Learning plans and graduated reading packets/books provide continuity and help each student improve reading skills. Math skills and homework also receive attention by college-student tutors and volunteer professional educators. The early childhood center provides developmentally appropriate opportunities to enhance the academic, social interaction, emotional and physical well-being of young children to reach their maximum potential, in an intentionally planned environment that fosters a sense of community and a life-long love of learning. In 2020, the summer kids virtual learning program provided 5 weeks of free online learning, exciting activities and virtual arts and crafts.
$410,279 spent100% of program spendingEmergency assistance - food pantry, clothing closet and community meals. Our food pantry is one of the oldest in Kansas City. It is open from 10am to 2pm, four days per week. Two clothes closets are well organized, neatly stocked with thousands of seasonal clothing items. Community meals are provided for Thusday dinner and lunches on Saturday and Sunday. Holidays are special with 300 needy families choosing food for cooking their own Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. Parents can select from Christmas toys, new clothing and other gifts, including baby bundles and blankets hygiene items are also provided to the homeless.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $410,279.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $615k to $491k (−20%).
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: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Grace United Community Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 5 of the last 9 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
Carolyn Coyne
Executive Director
Board chair
Max Sherman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $215k → $120k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Grace United Community Ministries 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
Grace United Community Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
44% 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 Grace United Community Ministries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 46% · 2019 47% · 2020 67% · 2021 45% · 2022 88% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Grace United Community Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Grace United Community Ministries Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $327k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Grace United Community Ministries Inc's revenue fell 64% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Grace United Community Ministries 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Grace United Community Ministries 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 Grace United Community Ministries Inc?
- Grace United Community Ministries Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,552,251 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($852,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Grace United Community Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,552,251 in grants to Grace United Community Ministries Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Grace United Community Ministries Inc?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $852,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Grace United Community Ministries Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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