Missouri · Nonprofit
NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,655,872 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,487,637). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $758k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What North Kansas City Schools Education Foundation does
Mission
Engaging our communities to support and fund extraordinary educational experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Teacher grants/awards and nkc schools supportthe education foundation's grant program is named in honor of dr. Dan kahler, a retired principal whose gift established the grant fund. Since 1997, the education foundation has awarded 410 grants to staff members totaling $610,550. Staff members submit grants that demonstrate creative and effective ways to meet student needs while increasing their achievement and motivation to learn. The majority of funding for these grants is received, held, and distributed by the greater kansas city community foundation on behalf of the education foundation. Due to this agreement, whereby gkccf retains variance power, some contribution revenue and expenses for awarded grants are not reflected on this return.
$379,401 spentof which $379,401 as grants71% of program spendingScholarshipstotal number of scholarships awarded by the education foundation continues to grow. Seniors graduating in 2025 received 147 scholarships worth over $185,000. That brought the total since 2004 to 1,358 scholarships totaling over $1,280,750. The majority of funding for these scholarships is received, held, and distributed by the greater kansas city community foundation on behalf of the education foundation. Due to this agreement, whereby gkccf retains variance power, some contribution revenue and expenses for awarded scholarships are not reflected on this return.
$151,852 spentof which $90,425 as grants29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $531,253.
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 $107k to $1.8M (+1626%).
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.
95% of NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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.
Chief executive
Midori Carpenter
Executive director
Board chair
Sarah Lang-Mckenna
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $246k → $42k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
97% of NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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 $42k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- North Kansas City School District · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,655,872 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,487,637). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,655,872 in grants to NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,487,637 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION 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 9 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