Missouri · Nonprofit
Kindness Begins With Me
Kindness Begins With Me (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,333 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,033). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $264k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Kindness Begins With Me does
Mission
Archway Refugee Connections works to connect refugee women and their families to each other and to the greater Saint Louis community through classes and activities including a driving program English language courses and a womens health and wellness group.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program Goals: 1 Students number of successful English conversations in their community increases. Community defined as home medical entities banks schools employment etc. 2 Clients social support network in St. Louis grows. 3 Clients knowledge of and access to needed social services grows.
$69,276 spent41% of program spendingProgram aims to mitigate social isolation and the associated mental health effects Outcomes below: 1 Clients skill base grows according to needs identified by participants. 2 Clients social support network in St. Louis grows. 3 Clients have at least 2 meaningful relationships in which they can ask questions and get support. 4 Clients knowledge of and access to needed social services grows. 5 Clients employability grows. 6 Clients social confidence grows.
$65,607 spent39% of program spendingProgram aims to facilitate transportation independence. Outcomes: 1 Clients obtain their Missouri State driving permits 2 Clients obtain their Missouri State drivers licenses
$33,711 spent20% of program spendingProgram aims to facilitate financial independence for home-bound women.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $168,594.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 Kindness Begins With Me’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
Kindness Begins With Me leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% 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 Kindness Begins With Me.
“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
97% of Kindness Begins With Me's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Kindness Begins With Me runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Kindness Begins With Me
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kindness Begins With Me: 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 Kindness Begins With Me?
- Kindness Begins With Me (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,333 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,033). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kindness Begins With Me have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,333 in grants to Kindness Begins With Me.
- Who is the largest funder of Kindness Begins With Me?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,033 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kindness Begins With Me 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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