Missouri · Nonprofit
REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC
REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,124,138 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($5,124,138). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Real World Initiatives Inc does
Program
Real world work experience: operating a kansas city metropolitan area-wide internship program for high school students, with a focus on students in urban core, lower income districts, through which students obtain work-force related skills and earn academic credit at their respective high schools. This program operates under the name pro-x.
$3,297,568 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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
Solissa Franco-Mckay
Executive director
Board chair
Susan Klusmeier
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of REAL WORLD INITIATIVES 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 REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like REAL WORLD INITIATIVES 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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC?
- REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,124,138 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($5,124,138). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,124,138 in grants to REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,124,138 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL WORLD INITIATIVES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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