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KC TENANTS

KC TENANTS (Missouri) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,059,234 to it, the largest being MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION ($1,074,300). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$4.1M
Net assets
$2.8M
11/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Kc Tenants does

Mission

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In 2024, KC Tenants launched the first rent strikes in KC Tenants history. We trained dozens of our leaders and partners on strategy. We knocked on hundreds of doors. We took thousands of hotline calls. We helped launch a new national tenant union. We organized with tenants throughout the metro to get A/C fixed in the summer, boilers working in the winter, bogus notices dropped, fair lease terms implemented. We voted nine leaders onto our strategy team through our first ever union-wide elections.

    $689,088 spentof which $1,503 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $689,088.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($972k) Expenses 100 ($305k) Net assets 100 ($667k)2022 Revenue 114 ($1.1M) Expenses 188 ($572k) Net assets 181 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 191 ($1.9M) Expenses 297 ($903k) Net assets 324 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 150 ($1.5M) Expenses 265 ($807k) Net assets 421 ($2.8M)
2021202220232024
Revenue (150)Expenses (265)Net assets (421)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $2.2M (+78%).

$689k
$1.2M
$2.2M
$2.8M
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of KC TENANTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$667k
’21
$540k
’22
$952k
’23
$648k
’24
42
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.

Chief executive

Tara Raghuveer

Executive Director

Board chair

Ashley Johnson

Board President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed6666
Joined·+1+0+0
No longer listed·100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $1.5M.

7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 KC TENANTS’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

KC TENANTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

70% 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 KC TENANTS.

26%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 40% · 2022 35% · 2023 33% — 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

71% of KC TENANTS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 52% 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

KC TENANTS draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 7 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
OH
CA
MO
DC

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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

KC TENANTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve42.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like KC TENANTS

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 4%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KC TENANTS: 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 KC TENANTS?
KC TENANTS (Missouri) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,059,234 to it, the largest being MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION ($1,074,300). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KC TENANTS have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $4,059,234 in grants to KC TENANTS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KC TENANTS?
MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,074,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KC TENANTS 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 2021–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing