Missouri · Nonprofit
PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC
PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC (Missouri) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,126,713 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($2,007,200). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc does
Mission
In a world where zip codes can predict outcomes, prep-kc ignites potential by bringing educators and industry professionals together to build paths to meaningful careers for students across the heart of bistate kansas city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Prep-kc partners with six school districts and three charter schools, enrolling over 66,000 students and graduating with approximately 3,900 high school students annually. 82% of students identify as students of color, and 86% come from low-income households. Our partner schools serve 19 of the 20 zip codes with the lowest median household incomes in the nine-county metropolitan area. (continued on schedule o) market value assets (mva) and school redesign:market value assets (mvas) are measurable, career-connected experiences that help students prepare for college, career, and life. Prep-kc tracks four types of mvas for students in our 21 partner high schools: 1. Nine or more college credits earned in high schools 2. An industry-recognized credential 3. Completion of an internship or client-connected project 4. Completion of an entrepreneurial experience since 2019, prep-kc has implemented a multi-faceted approach to expand mva attainment. This work includes redesigning high schools to provide "wall to wall" mva opportunities, ensuring that students have multiple ways to earn mvas through career pathways, dual-credit courses, apprenticeships, and student-run enterprises.…
$3,176,926 spentof which $467,299 as grants$744,096 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,176,926.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.0M to $5.0M (−17%).
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 12% · 2022 17% · 2023 17% · 2024 40% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Susan Wally
CEO & president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $453k → $533k.
3 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 71% · 2019 68% · 2020 32% · 2021 25% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% — 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
28% of PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
63% of PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- Department of Education$3.9M
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 PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC?
- PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC (Missouri) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,126,713 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($2,007,200). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $6,126,713 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,007,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY 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.
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 29 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