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.
Against its field
Kindness Begins With Me runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Area Resources for Community & Human Servicesshared fundersportfolio match
- Regional Business Councillocalportfolio match
- Generate Health Stllocalportfolio match
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 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Area Resources for Community & Human Servicesshared fundersportfolio matchMO · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Regional Business Councillocalportfolio matchMO · funds 46 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Generate Health Stllocalportfolio matchMO · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Norman J Stupp Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Hello Neighborportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Welcoming America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- G Andrew Franz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary's Penceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lifting Hands Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Kindness Begins With Me
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing