Missouri · Nonprofit
NURTURE KC
NURTURE KC (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,205,767 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($1,325,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Nurture Kc does
Mission
Nurture Kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. We work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide one-on-one support to connect families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy start program:the program focuses on the health of pregnant women and babies and decreases infant mortality and health disparities by providing outreach, care coordination, depression screening and health education.
$1,207,357 spent42% of program spendingCommunity initiatives: provides coordination and community action planning through collaborative community partnerships for immunization awareness to reduce vaccine preventable diseases and education on safe sleep practices to reduce infant death.
$1,636,024 spent58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,843,381.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $1.7M (+65%).
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 88% · 2018 82% · 2019 86% · 2020 79% · 2021 76% · 2022 86% · 2023 75% · 2024 60% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of NURTURE KC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Tracy Russell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $108k → $1.2M.
1 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NURTURE KC’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
NURTURE KC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 NURTURE KC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 46% · 2019 77% · 2020 47% · 2021 41% · 2022 73% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of NURTURE KC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
96% of NURTURE KC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70 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
NURTURE KC has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NURTURE KC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.4M
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 NURTURE KC
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NURTURE KC: 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 NURTURE KC?
- NURTURE KC (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,205,767 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($1,325,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NURTURE KC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,205,767 in grants to NURTURE KC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NURTURE KC?
- HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NURTURE KC 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing