Missouri · Nonprofit
INSPIRE KC INC
INSPIRE KC INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being The Torosian Foundation ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $180
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $-139451
What Inspire Kc Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire Kansas City and its visitors by revitalizing the urban experience, fostering community engagement and creatively transforming the city by presenting Arts and Cultural events for all to enjoy. In 2025, we focused on reorienting the organization in response to political and economic changes. The next phase is to find donors and sponsors for an initial festival planned for 2028.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Research began in 2023 for Inspire KC's celebration of Kansas City. The next phase is to find donors and sponsors for an initial festival planned for 2028.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6k to $66k (+994%).
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.
100% of INSPIRE KC INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cheryl Kimmi
Executive director
Board chair
Lea Petrie
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of INSPIRE KC 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.
Where its funders are
100% of INSPIRE KC 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
INSPIRE KC INC's revenue fell 99% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INSPIRE KC 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSPIRE KC 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 INSPIRE KC INC?
- INSPIRE KC INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being The Torosian Foundation ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSPIRE KC INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to INSPIRE KC INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSPIRE KC INC?
- The Torosian Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSPIRE KC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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