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Kansas City Dream Center Co

Kansas City Dream Center Co (Kansas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,975 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($70,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$359k
Net assets
$85k
6/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Kansas City Dream Center Co does

Mission

The Kansas City Dream Center connects people in need to a community of support by offering free resources and services that address immediate and long-term needs in the areas of abuse, addiction, education, homelessness and poverty.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. We are focused on homelessness, hunger, and human trafficking. We had 10,436 volunteer hours assisting our four employees to impact the community and transform lives. Our food pantry and clothing closet provided assistance to 15,772 people. By partnering with multiple local organizations such as Harvesters and Kanbes, as well as several schools and churches, we were able to bless those in need with 303,437 lbs. of food valued at $603,521 and other items valued at $321,385.

    $1,075,459 spentof which $931,537 as grants$1,122,631 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,075,459.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($95k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 100 ($52k)2020 Revenue 475 ($451k) Expenses 725 ($410k) Net assets 177 ($93k)2021 Revenue 1163 ($1.1M) Expenses 1876 ($1.1M) Net assets 260 ($136k)2022 Revenue 1401 ($1.3M) Expenses 2218 ($1.3M) Net assets 405 ($212k)2023 Revenue 1150 ($1.1M) Expenses 2045 ($1.2M) Net assets 282 ($148k)2024 Revenue 1183 ($1.1M) Expenses 2096 ($1.2M) Net assets 163 ($85k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1183)Expenses (2096)Net assets (163)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $103k to $183k (+77%).

$56k
$103k
$183k
$249k
$178k
$110k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 18% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Kansas City Dream Center Co’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’19
$41k
’20
$43k
’21
$76k
’22
−$65k
’23
−$62k
’24
0.6
months of
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.

Board chair

Alan Verhagen

Board Chair Treasurer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed710777
Joined·+3+1+1+1
No longer listed·0411
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $21k.

7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Kansas City Dream Center Co’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 21 funders by total. 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

Kansas City Dream Center Co has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

78% 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 Kansas City Dream Center Co.

19%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 74% · 2022 45% · 2023 52% — 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.

How long its funders stay

29% of Kansas City Dream Center Co's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

Kansas City Dream Center Co draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 5 states in all.

OH
CT
MO
KS
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Kansas City Dream Center Co has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)64% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Kansas City Dream Center Co

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 7%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Kansas City Dream Center Co?
Kansas City Dream Center Co (Kansas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,975 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($70,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Kansas City Dream Center Co have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $358,975 in grants to Kansas City Dream Center Co, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kansas City Dream Center Co?
HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kansas City Dream Center Co 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 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing