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Show Me KC Schools Inc

Show Me KC Schools Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,457,103 to it, the largest being SCHOOL SMART KC INC ($2,981,711). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$4.5M
Net assets
$528k
10/17 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Show Me KC Schools Inc does

Mission

Show Me KC Schools is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help families make well-informed decisions about their child's education by providing vital information about the school options available.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. SchoolApp a common online application that parents can use to apply at multiple schools in the greater Kansas City area. Currently 80% of the charter schools are participating in School App KC.

    $291,927 spent
    49% of program spending
  2. School Guides - Online/Printed: Show Me KC publishes an 80+ page printed school guide, which includes critical information about all of our schools, such as points of pride, application deadlines, kindergarten cutoff dates, school leaders and a detachable workbook within the guide for families to guide them on their school search journey. We distributed nearly 7,000 printed school guides to early childhood centers, libraries, community centers and partner organizations.

    $90,667 spent
    15% of program spending
  3. Show Me Spirit raises funds and brand awareness for partnering schools, and makes ordering great, customized spirit gear easy and affordable for families, alumni and school personnel. Each partner school's gear is custom-designed and made to order by Kansas City's MADE MOBB, a minority-owned and operated business with a passion for giving back to the community.

    $107,143 spent
    18% of program spending
  4. Other program expenses.

    $109,640 spent
    18% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $599,377.

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 ($509k) Expenses 100 ($251k) Net assets 100 ($325k)2018 Revenue 74 ($375k) Expenses 185 ($464k) Net assets 92 ($298k)2019 Revenue 93 ($475k) Expenses 200 ($504k) Net assets 83 ($269k)2021 Revenue 90 ($458k) Expenses 219 ($550k) Net assets 30 ($98k)2022 Revenue 141 ($718k) Expenses 238 ($598k) Net assets 67 ($219k)2023 Revenue 135 ($685k) Expenses 326 ($819k) Net assets 26 ($85k)2024 Revenue 195 ($994k) Expenses 382 ($959k) Net assets 48 ($156k)2025 Revenue 345 ($1.8M) Expenses 550 ($1.4M) Net assets 163 ($528k)
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Revenue (345)Expenses (550)Net assets (163)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 2024 to 2025, from $169k to $539k (+218%).

$344k
$298k
$277k
$147k
$219k
$107k
$169k
$539k
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2022 7% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of Show Me KC Schools Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 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.

$258k
’17
−$89k
’18
−$29k
’19
−$93k
’21
$121k
’22
−$134k
’23
$35k
’24
$372k
’25
4.6
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.

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Listed7888101099
Joined·+1+0·+6+0+0+3
No longer listed·00·4013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $314k → $672k.

3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Show Me KC Schools Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. 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

Show Me KC Schools Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

76% 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 Show Me KC Schools Inc.

67%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 85% · 2019 78% · 2020 100% · 2021 68% · 2022 63% · 2023 87% — 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

30% of Show Me KC Schools Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

80% of Show Me KC Schools Inc's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

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MO
KS
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FL

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. $238k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Show Me KC Schools Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Show Me KC Schools 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

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 20%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
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 Show Me KC Schools Inc?
Show Me KC Schools Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,457,103 to it, the largest being SCHOOL SMART KC INC ($2,981,711). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Show Me KC Schools Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $4,457,103 in grants to Show Me KC Schools Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Show Me KC Schools Inc?
SCHOOL SMART KC INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,981,711 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Show Me KC Schools 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing