Missouri · Nonprofit
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,340 to it, the largest being DR NANCY O'REILLY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $236k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Junior League of Springfield Missouri Inc does
Mission
We are an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. Our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Junior league of springfield, missouri, inc. ("junior league of springfield") partnered with five (5) organizations to provide community grants and volunteers to those partner organizations as well as training, service, and volunteer opportunities for junior league of springfield members. The projects focused on training junior league of springfield volunteers and improving our community through effective collaboration with local non-profit organization partners. See schedule o for additional information on the project partnerships.
$91,307 spentof which $8,127 as grants$22,703 earned by the program86% of program spendingJunior league of springfield paid dues to the association of junior leagues international, inc. (ajli) based on total junior league of springfield membership during the year, as a portion of individual member dues collected. The dues paid to ajli serve to support individual junior league organizations throughout the united states and in europe in their fulfillment of the shared junior league mission. The dues paid to ajli support specific initiatives and programming in three primary areas. These areas include: community and civic leadership; promoting a shared junior league identity; and organizational development that includes consultation and support that junior leagues can access through ajli.
$14,964 spent14% of program spendingJunior league of springfield (jls) awarded an emergency grant to better block sgf for the purpose of supporting the electrical connection for a community fridge located at the fairbanks which serves as a community hub in the grant beach neighborhood.jls awarded a discretionary grant to wilder elementary to support educational field trips for students. Jls partnered with the community foundation of the ozarks by contributing funds to the community focus report. This report compiles quantitative and qualitative data for springfield and greene county. The results have helped area nonprofits, businesses and government agencies develop initiatives to make the community stronger, better and more effective.
The junior league of springfield (jls) founders fund was established to honor the five women who established the community service league of springfield in 1959 - that in 1976 became the 231st junior league in the country. It's annual educational scholarship recognizes outstanding young women from southwest missouri who exemplify dedication to improving one's community through volunteer service. The scholarship supports a graduating senior in furthering her education.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $106,271.
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 $2.3M to $2.8M (+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: 2021 3% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $153.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI 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
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
98% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI 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. $690 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI 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.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC?
- JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,340 to it, the largest being DR NANCY O'REILLY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,340 in grants to JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI INC?
- DR NANCY O'REILLY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI 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.
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 3 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