Missouri · Nonprofit
ONE CLASSROOM
ONE CLASSROOM (Missouri) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,504,683 to it, the largest being YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($608,700). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $976k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $235k
What One Classroom does
Mission
One Classroom supports the inclusion of children with special needs in local catholic parish schools by educating about inclusive learning, providing access to expert resources, and creating forums to share best practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
School grants - One Classroom's school grants are the foundation of our 10+ year history serving catholic schools in the archdiocese of st. Louis. Through this programming area, One Classroom provides annual monetary grants to fund the salaries of support staff who are essential for the inclusion of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd). Further, One Classroom's programming staff provides additional support through coaching, onsite evaluation and ongoing training.
$640,137 spentof which $623,315 as grants97% of program spendingProfessional development - since One Classroom's founding, our organization has prioritized the vital role of continuing education and training. Each year, our programming staff provides workshops and training for local educators related to inclusive catholic education. Our resources, like the One Classroom manual, are used in the archdiocese of st. Louis and beyond. Additionally, One Classroom partners with local and national experts and institutions of higher education to provide timely and impactful formation for our local teachers.
$18,270 spent3% of program spendingParents & families - support for parents and families of children with idd is at the heart of One Classroom's mission. We walk in solidarity and shared faith with a national network of catholic parents who navigate the unique challenges and blessings of having a child with idd. Resources in our One Classroom manual provide insights for those asking, "what's next?" locally, we strive to build community among parents in the archdiocese of st. Louis seeking to foster lifelong connections and fellowship for themselves and their children. Further, engaging parents and families of neurotypical children is an important part of making inclusion a core value for the whole parish and school community.
Advocacy & engagement - One Classroom's work in the broader community engaging the local church, advocating for federal and state funding, and partnership with community organizations is essential to successful inclusion. One Classroom aims to build a more inclusive parish and school community by ensuring priests, religious brothers and sisters, and the local curia are informed, passionate, and energized to proclaim the beautiful gifts reflected in our brothers and sisters with idd. By engaging community organizations with aligned missions, we can expand our impact to ensure schools receive as many tools and resources as possible.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $658,407.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $64k to $561k (+779%).
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.
100% of ONE CLASSROOM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Kyle Van Frank
Executive director
Board chair
Anthony M Armitage
Chairman - cofounder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $47k → $294k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 ONE CLASSROOM’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
ONE CLASSROOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 ONE CLASSROOM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 40% · 2019 62% · 2020 24% · 2021 28% · 2022 61% · 2023 71% — 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
69% of ONE CLASSROOM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
60% of ONE CLASSROOM'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 $598k 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. $907k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ONE CLASSROOM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ONE CLASSROOM
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ONE CLASSROOM: 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 ONE CLASSROOM?
- ONE CLASSROOM (Missouri) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,504,683 to it, the largest being YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($608,700). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ONE CLASSROOM have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,504,683 in grants to ONE CLASSROOM, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONE CLASSROOM?
- YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $608,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONE CLASSROOM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 22 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