Missouri · Nonprofit
GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS
GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $64,110 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($64,110). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $786k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $325k
What Greater Ozarks Cooperating School Districts does
Mission
To serve member districts by promoting collaboration of resources to ensure educational opportunites are maximized thus allowing member districts to focus on advancement of educational opportunities for students served at all educational levels within the ozarks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Gocsd serves as a conduit for the sharing of educational practices between districts through networking and collaboration, while also offering district-initiated high quality professional learning opportunities for members. Districts are also provided opportunities for purchasing needed resources at reduced costs through the many gocsd business partners. Gocsd also serves as a key voice for southwest missouri public schools at the state and national level. The collaborative efforts with the missouri department of elementary and secondary education, local and state business communities and state/federal legislators provide key opportunities for proactively supporting school districts. The needs of missouri children are at the forefront of this advocacy work.
$470,418 spentof which $7,500 as grants$552,126 earned by the program81% of program spendingThe gocsd sponsored yearly innovation summit is one of the premiere professional learning experiences offered for missouri educators. Top educational researchers from across the nation serve as keynote speakers with local educators sharing expertise through over 100 break-out sessions.
$113,805 spent$106,380 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $584,223.
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 2023 to 2024, from $272k to $472k (+73%).
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.
16% of GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Pamela Hedgpeth
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $31k.
From the IRS filings of GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS'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
GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS
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
84% 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS?
- GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $64,110 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($64,110). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $64,110 in grants to GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $64,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER OZARKS COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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