Missouri · Nonprofit
NOVA CENTER INC
NOVA CENTER INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $166 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($166). 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
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $166
- Net assets
- $17M
What Nova Center Inc does
Mission
Nova center's mission is to provide the highest quality educational and habilative services to individuals with developmental disabilities (l.d., b.d., e.m.h), including autism and asperger's syndrome. We believe each individual has the right to reach his or her highest potential and to live and work in the least restrictive environment possible. Nova center provides individualized programs geared to all levels of developmental disabilities with the goal of enabling each participant to lead a richer, more independent and productive life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nova center offers group living and individual supported living residential services for children and adults whose behavioral difficulties inhibit their success in traditional placements.
$3,470,981 spent$5,142,284 earned by the program53% of program spendingNova center provides individualized education programs to children with severe developmental disabilities. The school is an approved private agency of mo department of elementary and secondary education, and serves 16 kansas city, missouri area school districts. The teacher to student ratio averages 1:4. All teachers are certified and complete a professional training program incorporating intensive behavioral, sensory, communicative and positive behavior support training.
$1,957,441 spent$2,014,922 earned by the program30% of program spendingNova center provides support through its day habilitation program that offers training in all areas of functional daily living for persons over age 21. This program focuses on independent living skills, including personal care, communication, safety skills, home living and cooking, social recreation, and community involvement. Its retirement program offers a variety of activities to people who due to age or physical needs, need a slower paced program. The retirement program offers a relaxed setting based on recreation. A variety of activities are offered and designed to enhance development of social skills and friendships.
$1,007,255 spent$2,080,367 earned by the program15% of program spendingNova center also provides a school lunch program and a transportation program for its students.
$75,160 spent$48,658 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,510,837.
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 $12M to $15M (+24%).
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: 2021 31% · 2022 23% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of NOVA CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Mark Thill
CEO/CFO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $127 → $39.
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 NOVA CENTER INC’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 NOVA CENTER INC'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. $166 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
NOVA CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NOVA CENTER INC
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NOVA CENTER INC?
- NOVA CENTER INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $166 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($166). 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 NOVA CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $166 in grants to NOVA CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOVA CENTER INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOVA CENTER INC 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