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SAFE AND SOBER INC

SAFE AND SOBER INC (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,864 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($224,035). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$500k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$386k
Net assets
$164k
9/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Safe and Sober Inc does

Mission

The mission of Missouri Safe and Sober is to deliver outcome-based educational programs designed to empower young people to make safe choices. We work to prevent substance abuse.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The 2024 tax year, our non-profit mission is to deliver prevention education to youth, many of which are experiencing our program in school. For that reason this report is based on our accomplishments in the 2024-2025 school year. The number of Missouri schools and organizations signed up for Safe and Sober has seen a 61.4 % increase during the 2024-2025 school year totaling 452. The number of students served by Missouri Schools and Organizations showed an 89% increase over FY 24 totaling 249,339 youth. Because the materials are available on our website at no cost, we track all users in addition to Missouri. Currently there are 724 registered users throughout all 50 states in the United States serving 439,458 youth. .This program year Safe and Sober (SNS) piloted a Clubs initiative to integrate prevention into student-led clubs, in addition to our full prevention program that is used by counselors, School Resource Officers, classroom teachers, and administrators in public, private and homeschools across the US. For our Clubs initiative we focused on the southwest Missouri Region to track the effectiveness of afterschool prevention. All told 46 schools and organizations…

    $421,943 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $421,943.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($492k) Expenses 100 ($501k) Net assets 100 ($159k)2018 Revenue 98 ($480k) Expenses 89 ($446k) Net assets 122 ($193k)2019 Revenue 93 ($459k) Expenses 103 ($517k) Net assets 85 ($135k)2020 Revenue 109 ($534k) Expenses 104 ($523k) Net assets 92 ($146k)2021 Revenue 103 ($505k) Expenses 106 ($530k) Net assets 76 ($121k)2022 Revenue 89 ($439k) Expenses 88 ($440k) Net assets 76 ($121k)2023 Revenue 94 ($462k) Expenses 91 ($455k) Net assets 80 ($127k)2024 Revenue 102 ($500k) Expenses 92 ($463k) Net assets 103 ($164k)
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Revenue (102)Expenses (92)Net assets (103)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $197k to $137k (−30%).

$162k
$197k
$137k
$148k
$145k
$147k
$135k
$172k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

103% of SAFE AND SOBER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$34k
’18
−$58k
’19
$11k
’20
−$25k
’21
−$819
’22
$7k
’23
$37k
’24
4.4
months of
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.

Board chair

Kurt Larson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed56655446
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·0010101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $53k → $47k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 SAFE AND SOBER 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

SAFE AND SOBER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% 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 SAFE AND SOBER INC.

58%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 61% · 2019 82% · 2020 81% · 2021 78% · 2022 56% · 2023 53% — 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

33% of SAFE AND SOBER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

85% of SAFE AND SOBER 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. Of the $60k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Missouri funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $326k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAFE AND SOBER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SAFE AND SOBER 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 3%Fundraising 6%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAFE AND SOBER INC?
SAFE AND SOBER INC (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,864 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($224,035). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAFE AND SOBER INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $385,864 in grants to SAFE AND SOBER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAFE AND SOBER INC?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $224,035 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAFE AND SOBER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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