Missouri · Nonprofit
HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD
HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,876 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $101k
What HBCU Walking Billboard does
Mission
HBCUWB works with middle school, high school, and college students to promote awareness of, attendance to, and graduation from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Since 2015, volunteers have hosted college related events for 25 school districts partnered with over 20 community organizations took part in over 30 college fairs assisted over 100 students attending HBCUs and educated hundreds of students and their families about the impact of attending a historically black college.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $32k → $75.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD’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
HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 79% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,861 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,861 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Organizations like HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD: 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 HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD?
- HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,876 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $61,876 in grants to HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HBCU WALKING BILLBOARD 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 2021–2021), and the filings of 6 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