Missouri · Nonprofit
MISSOURI APPLESEED
MISSOURI APPLESEED (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $799,384 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($375,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $288k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $799k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Missouri Appleseed does
Mission
Missouri Appleseed believes all missouri families deserve the opportunity to thrive. Through research, advocacy, and education, Missouri Appleseed works to improve the systems and policies at the intersection of public health, criminal justice, and child welfare.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public health - Missouri Appleseed worked to ensure that mothers and babies have a healthy start to life. We worked for affordable diapers and menstrual products to combat period poverty. Missouri apple hosted a free continuing legal education on substance use during pregnancy for over 100 attendees. Missouri Appleseed also worked to make public assistance for food more easily accessible to people with drug convictions. Missouri Appleseed trained 15 missouri jails on medicaid enrollment and worked with the state department of medicaid (mo healthnet) on implementing federal medicaid opportunities for individuals returning to their communities.
$170,462 spentof which $1,000 as grants66% of program spendingThe criminal justice reform - Missouri Appleseed helped ensure families stay together by educating the public, attorneys, and judges on the existence of legislation requiring judges to consider the effects of parental incarceration when sentencing nonviolent primary caretakers of dependent children. Missouri Appleseed also researched the treatment of mentally ill detained defendants. Missouri Appleseed also worked to ensure that jails provide pregnant women with improved nutrition and prenatal vitamins while incarcerated. Missouri Appleseed hosted a free continuing legal education session on the intersection of parent rights, civil rights, and child welfare.
$40,602 spent$1,500 earned by the program16% of program spendingThe prison reform - Missouri Appleseed worked to make it easier and affordable for children and family members to stay in touch when a loved one is incarcerated. We worked to ensure that the state cannot take money from individuals who received settlements from the state.
$39,812 spent15% of program spendingGeneral programs
$8,266 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $259,142.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $114k to $196k (+71%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 0% · 2021 16% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MISSOURI APPLESEED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $80k → $124k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 MISSOURI APPLESEED’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
MISSOURI APPLESEED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 MISSOURI APPLESEED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 94% · 2020 97% · 2021 59% · 2022 51% · 2023 60% — 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
63% of MISSOURI APPLESEED's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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
71% of MISSOURI APPLESEED'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 $233k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $566k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
MISSOURI APPLESEED has grown faster than half of the 169 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 169 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSOURI APPLESEED
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSOURI APPLESEED: 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 MISSOURI APPLESEED?
- MISSOURI APPLESEED (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $799,384 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($375,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MISSOURI APPLESEED have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $799,384 in grants to MISSOURI APPLESEED, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSOURI APPLESEED?
- THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSOURI APPLESEED 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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