Missouri · Nonprofit
KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC
KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being GREATER KANSAS CITY FOREIGN TRADE ZONE INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $995k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $392k
What Kansas City Smartport Inc does
Mission
Kc smartport is a non-profit economic development organization that works to attract freight-based companies, such as manufacturing, distribution and warehouses, to the 18 county, bi-state kansas city region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The smartport team had a great year. The smartport team recruited 15 new industrial operations to the region. The pipeline saw a renewed diversity of project-type and industry, including a more balanced mix of manufacturing verses distribution supporting the battery supply chain, cold storage, defense, home improvement, alternative energy, e-commerce and logistics industries. Proactive pursuit of foreign direct investment opportunity continued with the team visting italy, germany, mexico, and canada in 2024, setting us up well for an aggressive international outreach strategy in 2025. The smartport team remained engaged with these projects through our relationships with the industrial brokerage community and the site selection consultants. Our marketing and product development efforts allowed the kc region to stay top of the list for these projects with kc being recognized as one of the top industrial construction markets in the u.s. Kc smartport is focusing on increasing community wealth through payroll creation and capital investment by attracting new employers to the kansas city, missouri metro area. The organization participated in attracting freight-based projects to the kc…
The second mission is to make the industry and the region more competitive in the movement of goods into, out of, and through the kansas city market. Kansas city smartport continued to provide leadership in cscmp,wtc, trade data exchange and had an increased leadership role with the workforce development effort as well as being the recognized thought leader in supply chain topics for the kansas city region. Smartport's marketing efforts continued to exceed targets as our team focused on telling the kc story and reaching the right contacts. Smartport efforts placed articles on kansas city's supply chain industry in national and local media. The organization placed 30 articles in national media and 21 in local media outlets in 2024. Kc smartport participated in 26 speaking engagements on kansas city's industrial market. See attahced listing of these articles and events.
Started in 2023, the project ocean-panasonic energy co., ltd which selected a site in desoto kansas within the kc region to build one of the largest electric vehicle battery manufacturing facilities of its kind in the us is nearing completion. The project is expected to create 4,000 new jobs and result in an investment of 4 billion and 250 million in payroll, which represents the largest economic development project in kansas history. The development will have ripple effects throughout the regional and state economy, supporting an estimated 4,000 additional jobs created by suppliers and community businesses and 16,500 construction jobs.
The trade data exchange technology is a cargo data risk management clearinghouse software that connects shippers, importers/exporters, carriers, freight forwarders, brokers, financial institutions and governments along the supply chain. It is a shared logistics data solution implemented across all transportation modes, all industries and all trade participants. It is endorsed by the us department of transportation and other federal agencies. Tde complements the electronic freight management (efm) initiative, a usdot-sponsored project that applies web technologies that improve data and message transmissions between supply chain partners. Leveraging a private network and user- friendly web-based interface, the technology enables shipment data to be entered only once and used many times, thereby reducing the potential for mistakes and eliminating the need to contact multiple carriers or track shipments on multiple web sites. Leaders envision hundreds, possibly thousands of data points exchanging in this manner on a global basis. In 2010 the inaugural meeting of the tde board of directors officially launches tde. In 2011 tde solidified a partnership with the company eshipping to bring…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $318k to $224k (−30%).
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 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $15k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $575k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kansas City Area Development Council). These are real filings, and they are not money KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT 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 KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT 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
KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT 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 KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC?
- KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being GREATER KANSAS CITY FOREIGN TRADE ZONE INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT INC?
- GREATER KANSAS CITY FOREIGN TRADE ZONE INC 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 KANSAS CITY SMARTPORT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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