Missouri · Nonprofit
KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC
KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,869,352 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($46,772,352). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $507k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $0
What Kauffman Scholars Inc does
Program
Postsecondary program - coaches work with students virtually, and on their respective college campuses, connecting students to campus resources and academic supports. In addition to working with students, coaches maintain relationships with representatives at the twenty-three (23) institutions in the ksi postsecondary network, which includes 4-year colleges and universities along with several community colleges and other 2-year institutions. For academic year 2022-23, the program served 63 college-level students from the class-8 cohort.
$168,443 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.4M to $649k (−81%).
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
Susan Klusmeier
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11M → $918k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS 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
KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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
100% of KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS 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. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS 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 KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC?
- KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,869,352 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($46,772,352). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $46,869,352 in grants to KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,772,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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