Kansas · Nonprofit
JOY MEADOWS INC
JOY MEADOWS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,974,825 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($1,269,908). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Joy Meadows Inc does
Mission
It is the mission of joy meadows to provide families with community support, housing, and resources so that children impacted by foster care can find stability, healing and joy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To support foster families & foster children, joy meadows has provided families with access to a clothing closet, several types of therapy, day camps, a community garden and its produce, animal sessions, school supplies, and hosts of monthly gatherings for families to connect with and support one another.
$472,675 spentof which $64,016 as grants$7,556 earned by the program62% of program spendingTo maintain existing homes that joy meadows designed to allow foster families to accept large sibling groups preventing further separation trauma for those children, as well as planning for future home build projects. In addition to the program service expenses, there were capital expenditures of $365,810 made for organization facilities that will house foster families.
$173,437 spentof which $1,530 as grants23% of program spendingJoy meadows helped churches start programs to support foster families and brought new model of support for retention of foster families in kansas.
$118,991 spentof which $250 as grants16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $765,103.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $4.2M (+78%).
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 2% · 2021 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of JOY MEADOWS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Justin Oberndorfer
CEO
Board chair
Rick Morefield
Chair of board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $36k → $699k.
11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 JOY MEADOWS 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
JOY MEADOWS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 JOY MEADOWS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 42% · 2020 54% · 2021 66% · 2022 28% · 2023 68% — 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 JOY MEADOWS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
69% of JOY MEADOWS INC'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 $936k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
JOY MEADOWS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like JOY MEADOWS 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 JOY MEADOWS 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 JOY MEADOWS INC?
- JOY MEADOWS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,974,825 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($1,269,908). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JOY MEADOWS INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,974,825 in grants to JOY MEADOWS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOY MEADOWS INC?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,269,908 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOY MEADOWS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 29 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