Missouri · Nonprofit
MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP
MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,398 to it, the largest being The Lucille and Bruce Lambert Charitable Foundation Inc ($116,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $168k
- Net assets
- $134k
What Missouri Courage Scholarship does
Mission
Our mission is to acknowledge, affirm, and reward students who demonstrate courage and take a stand for social justice. We are the largest state-wide LGBTQ scholarship organization in Missouri.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We granted 29 scholarships to graduating seniors in the state of Missouri. There were more than 150 applicants for these scholarships. Students were selected based on essays written about their demonstration of courage in their school or communities along with their academic and extra curricular accomplishments in high school.
We serve as the scholarship administration arm for organizations we partner with that have similar overall missions in the LGBTQ community. In 2025 we partnered with Tower Grove Pride and Miss Gay City of Columbia.
We serve as the financial sponsor for the Gabriella Rose Justice Support Service (GRJSS). They provide emergency scholarships to transgender students at the University of Missouri.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $73k to $98k (+34%).
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.
92% of MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP’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. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $38k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP’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 COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 58% — 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
MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP 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 MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP
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
100%
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 COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP: 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 COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP?
- MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,398 to it, the largest being The Lucille and Bruce Lambert Charitable Foundation Inc ($116,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $168,398 in grants to MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP?
- The Lucille and Bruce Lambert Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $116,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSOURI COURAGE SCHOLARSHIP 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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