Missouri · Nonprofit
Kansas City University
Kansas City University (Missouri) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,616,311 to it, the largest being JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE ($13,450,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $166M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $468M
What Kansas City University does
Mission
Kansas City University is a community of professionals committed to excellence in education, research, patient care and community service while improving the well-being of the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The university is developing its college of health professions with an inaugural program starting in january 2026 culminating in a master of health science in anesthesiologist assistant degree (mhs-aa).
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The university educates doctors of osteopathic medicine. Our four-year integrated curriculum emphasizes both the basic sciences and clinical skills.
$66,071,364 spentof which $3,616,789 as grants$103,303,813 earned by the program70% of program spendingThe university's college of dental medicine is a four-year integrated curriculum culminating in a doctor of dental medicine degree. The first cohort of 80 students began in fy24.
$20,064,263 spentof which $635,929 as grants$18,161,396 earned by the program21% of program spendingThe university's college of biosciences includes a graduate program conferring a master of science in biomedical sciences as well as a clinical psychology program conferring the doctor of psychology degree.
$6,619,039 spentof which $244,657 as grants$6,992,830 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe university's college of health professions' inaugural program is scheduled to start in january 2026 and will culminate in a master of health science in anesthesiologist assistant degree (mhs-aa).
$1,091,351 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,846,017.
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 2024 to 2025, from $473M to $542M (+15%).
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.
14% of Kansas City University’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Marc Hahn
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $3.6M → $9.0M.
15 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 University leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% 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
42% 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 University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 59% · 2019 88% · 2020 46% · 2021 47% · 2022 43% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“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 University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
61% of Kansas City University's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Kansas City University runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Kansas City University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.5M on record — $26.5M federal, $1k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$15.7M
- Department of Defense$8.0M
- Department of Education$2.7M
- DE POSTSECONDARY SCHLRSHP$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Kansas City University
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Independence Avenue Development Co · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kansas City University: 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 University?
- Kansas City University (Missouri) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,616,311 to it, the largest being JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE ($13,450,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kansas City University have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $45,616,311 in grants to Kansas City University, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kansas City University?
- JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $13,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kansas City University 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 54 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