Missouri · Nonprofit
MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,133 to it, the largest being LA-Z-BOY FOUNDATION ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $243k
What McDonald County Schools Foundation does
Mission
McDonald County Schools Foundation primary exempt purpose is to raise, manage, and distribute funds to benefit the students of the mcdonald county public school district.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We provided scholarships to 25 recipients to further the recipients post secondary education.
$22,686 spentof which $22,686 as grants41% of program spendingWe have received grants and administered funds that are to be used for specific purposes. Amounts received is $3,050. Amounts disbursed as requested thus far is $3050.
$3,050 spentof which $3,050 as grants6% of program spendingThe foundation also provided for several teacher grants totaling $12885. These teacher grants were granted to enhance the student experience. One teacher grant was awarded to the mcdonald county high school computer science program to purchase a large bundle vex go robotics kit. Students learn to build robots. Another grant went to the mcdonald county high school outdoor research class to purchase a bric 5 device that enables the students to map, survey and research. Kindergarten class at white rock received a grant to purchase play costumes and a play kitchen for role playing. White rock junior high teachers requested a grip a strip display rail. Pineville primary school used a grant to purchase a vex robotics classroom bundle system to let the students start easy robotic construction. A pineville primary teacher received a grant to purchase a calm cube for her classroom. Aes life skills and aes sensory room committees accepted a grant to purchase life skills materials and supplies and sensory room equipment for their rooms. Noel primary is using their grant to purchase playground equipment for ec and ecse. In addition to the above grants we purchase gift cards for new teachers…
$29,636 spentof which $29,636 as grants54% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,372.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $169k to $224k (+32%).
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.
85% of MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $249 → $18k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’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
MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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
MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: 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 MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,133 to it, the largest being LA-Z-BOY FOUNDATION ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,133 in grants to MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- LA-Z-BOY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MCDONALD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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