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MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY

MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,012,241 to it, the largest being LESTER GEHM MEMORIAL AND EDUCATION FUND ($394,171). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10.0M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$60M
12/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Missouri Military Academy does

Mission

Missouri Military Academy empowers young men to unlock their potential through a program of academic excellence, character, social development, and leadership training within a structured environment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Develop young men who are of sound moral character and self-discipline to strive for and achieve their goals, are academically prepared to attend and graduate from college and are better prepared for life as a result of the academy's mentoring and focus on academic, physical, character, and social development.

    $5,448,672 spentof which $1,659,532 as grants$9,105,441 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,448,672.

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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($67M)2018 Revenue 108 ($12M) Expenses 104 ($11M) Net assets 102 ($68M)2019 Revenue 111 ($13M) Expenses 118 ($13M) Net assets 104 ($70M)2020 Revenue 92 ($11M) Expenses 127 ($14M) Net assets 101 ($68M)2021 Revenue 132 ($15M) Expenses 133 ($14M) Net assets 113 ($76M)2022 Revenue 121 ($14M) Expenses 136 ($15M) Net assets 96 ($64M)2023 Revenue 112 ($13M) Expenses 159 ($17M) Net assets 91 ($61M)2024 Revenue 75 ($8.6M) Expenses 92 ($9.8M) Net assets 89 ($60M)2025 Revenue 86 ($10.0M) Expenses 95 ($10M) Net assets 89 ($60M)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (95)Net assets (89)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 2021 to 2022, from $77M to $66M (−15%).

$68M
$70M
$72M
$70M
$77M
$66M
$63M
$63M
$61M
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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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$784k
’17
$1.3M
’18
$150k
’19
−$3.0M
’20
$950k
’21
−$633k
’22
−$4.2M
’23
−$1.2M
’24
−$224k
’25
0.2
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.

Board chair

Strib Koster

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121312111112121116
Joined·+1+1+0+1+2+2+2+5
No longer listed·02111230
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $61k → $114k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 MILITARY ACADEMY’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 MILITARY ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

39%
largest funder
61%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 69% · 2019 42% · 2020 47% · 2021 44% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% — 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

78% of MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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

MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 7 states in all.

IL
IA
NE
MO
MD
AZ
TX

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

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

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

Government funding MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $800k on record.

Federal$800k
grants $0contracts $800k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$800k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 44%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY?
MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,012,241 to it, the largest being LESTER GEHM MEMORIAL AND EDUCATION FUND ($394,171). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,012,241 in grants to MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY?
LESTER GEHM MEMORIAL AND EDUCATION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $394,171 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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