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Metropolitan Community College Foundation

Metropolitan Community College Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,439,477 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($10,245,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
$21M
16/33 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Metropolitan Community College Foundation does

Mission

The foundation supports the mission of the junior college district of metropolitan kansas city, missouri dba the metropolitan community college (mcc) of preparing students, serving communities, and creating opportunities by carrying out certain charitable, educational, literacy, and scientific purposes of the college.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. As the nonprofit fundraising arm for mcc, the foundation services over 20,000 students annually by addressing their financial and educational needs through scholarships, educational enhancement programs, improvement of learning facilities. Many programs take place on the five mcc campuses around the metropolitan area. The flights of fancy annual kite festival draws 35,000 students and community members. The chancellor's martin luther king, jr. Scholarship luncheon brings over 1,000+ community reprresentatives to raise awareness and funding support for scholarships. Additionally, the foundation administers scholarships and endowments, athletic, alumni and donor recognition events, and leads the annual fundraising campaign. Other projects include student emergency book funds which provides assistance to students in purchasing needed textbooks, lab supplies, and other expenses, providing awards for art shows held at the carter art center, and activities and programs held on the various campuses and in the community throughout.

    $6,820,866 spentof which $6,555,545 as grants
    87% of program spending
  2. Scholarships are the signature program of the mcc foundation providing financial support for tuition and academic coaching for students with financial need. Close to 50% of mcc students require assistance in order to realize their dreams of achieving a higher education. Many students receiving foundation scholarships are the first in their families to attend college and the scholarships have changed the lives of recipients and their families.

    $1,043,588 spentof which $1,043,588 as grants
    13% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,864,454.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($911k) Expenses 100 ($649k) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 93 ($850k) Expenses 292 ($1.9M) Net assets 97 ($13M)2019 Revenue 125 ($1.1M) Expenses 140 ($912k) Net assets 100 ($13M)2020 Revenue 138 ($1.3M) Expenses 157 ($1.0M) Net assets 101 ($13M)2021 Revenue 996 ($9.1M) Expenses 524 ($3.4M) Net assets 163 ($21M)2022 Revenue 374 ($3.4M) Expenses 905 ($5.9M) Net assets 122 ($16M)2023 Revenue 324 ($3.0M) Expenses 363 ($2.4M) Net assets 134 ($18M)2024 Revenue 786 ($7.2M) Expenses 349 ($2.3M) Net assets 183 ($24M)2025 Revenue 406 ($3.7M) Expenses 1225 ($8.0M) Net assets 161 ($21M)
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Revenue (406)Expenses (1225)Net assets (161)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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $21M (+58%).

$13M
$13M
$14M
$14M
$21M
$17M
$19M
$27M
$25M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of Metropolitan Community College Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$262k
’17
−$1.0M
’18
$223k
’19
$237k
’20
$5.7M
’21
−$2.5M
’22
$598k
’23
$4.9M
’24
−$4.3M
’25
5.9
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.

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Listed252523201921171617
Joined·+4+2+2+2+3+1+5+6
No longer listed·44531565
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $357k → $5.5M.

6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Metropolitan Community College Foundation raised.

From the IRS filings of Metropolitan Community College Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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

Metropolitan Community College Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

66%
largest funder
81%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 48% · 2019 56% · 2020 48% · 2021 57% · 2022 60% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.

“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

23% of Metropolitan Community College Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Metropolitan Community College Foundation draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 8 states in all.

ID
CO
MO
VA
KS
AR
NC
TX

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

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’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Metropolitan Community College Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−115% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Metropolitan Community College Foundation

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Jr College Dist of Metro Kcmo Dba McC · exempt
  • Kc McC Building Corporation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Metropolitan Community College Foundation?
Metropolitan Community College Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,439,477 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($10,245,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Metropolitan Community College Foundation have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $15,439,477 in grants to Metropolitan Community College Foundation, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Metropolitan Community College Foundation?
THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Metropolitan Community College 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing