Missouri · Nonprofit
MOBIUS
MOBIUS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $86 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($86). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $86
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Mobius does
Mission
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, including, without limitation: -to operate a computer network to facilitate the exchange of bibliographic information among the libraries of members, which shall include, but not be limited to, institutions of higher education and federal, state and local governments, all of which are tax-exempt; -to provide cost-effective acquisition and delivery of library materials, and other educational products and services to members, which enhance their abilities to serve the needs of students, citizens and the general public; -to support members in their efforts to engage in best practices in the field of library science, with the aim of advancing education; -to solicit and receive gifts, contributions, bequests, devises and grants of property, whether real or personal, whether outright or in trust, from individuals, foundations, partnerships, associations, organizations, corpora
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mobius' purpose is to share library materials, information and services using cost effective methods. The Mobius union catalog has over 29 million items serving over 1.5 million users in missouri, oklahoma, iowa, kansas and texas. A courier service delivers library materials to member libraries once per day, 5 days per week. Mobius has 72 member libraries which include 62 academic libraries, 5 public libraries, 4 special libraries, and the missouri state library. -Mobius offers training to its members and hosts an annual conference. -Mobius offers consortial discounts on electronic resources for its members, saving them thousands of dollars each year. -Mobius manages innreach, a union catalog and resource sharing tool from innovative interfaces as well as their sierra platform, a local integrated library system for member libraries.
$9,815,034 spentof which $3,883 as grants$10,290,442 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,815,034.
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.
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 $4.2M to $3.9M (−9%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of MOBIUS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33 → $20.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MOBIUS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MOBIUS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86 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
MOBIUS's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MOBIUS
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MOBIUS: 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 MOBIUS?
- MOBIUS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $86 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($86). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MOBIUS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $86 in grants to MOBIUS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOBIUS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $86 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOBIUS 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 1 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