Missouri · Nonprofit
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,546 to it, the largest being TRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($160,712). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $611k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $289k
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What School District of Independence Foundation Inc does
Mission
To strengthen the schools and community by expanding educational opportunities and community engagement, enhancing learning environments, and providing need-based funding and services for our students and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarship administration - administered approximately 100 scholarship funds. Awarded over 118 scholarships ranging from 100 to 5,000 to independence school district students out of over 80 scholarship funds. Awarded over 504 dual credit scholarships (high school and college credit) to independence school district students.
$266,199 spentof which $262,249 as grants60% of program spendingDistrict support - provided grants and payments to the independence school district for program support including new teacher grants, classroom grants, program supplies and assistance to individuals.
$149,937 spentof which $123,718 as grants34% of program spendingCommunity outreach - provided assistance to over 880 students and families in need including assistance with utilities, transportation, eyeglasses, household and personal care items,food, document assistance, and holiday gift cards.
$28,813 spentof which $28,813 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $444,949.
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.
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 $4.1M to $4.8M (+18%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $83k → $15k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION 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
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
67% of SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION 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 $94k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k 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.
Organizations like SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION 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 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC?
- SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,546 to it, the largest being TRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($160,712). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $288,546 in grants to SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC?
- TRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,712 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION 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 7 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