Missouri · Nonprofit
SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS
SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,892 to it, the largest being SCHAEFFER FOUNDATION ($510,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $712k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $645k
- Net assets
- $273k
What Showme Aquatics and Fitness does
Mission
To provide health, fitness and quality of life in an environment that is as accommodating, accessible and barrier-free as possible. Our purpose is to provide freedom of movement through inclusive, person-centered recreational and therapeutic programs to people of all ages and abilities including water exercise, therapy and land-based fitness
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The aqua ability program is a combination of rehabilitative aquatic therapy, water exercise, and adaptive swimming instruction, individually or in small groups with land exercise (when appropriate). Each participant has a customized program to enable the person to achieve better overall health, mobility, and psycho/social well-being, improving their quality of life. The program is targeted for people with developmental and acquired disabilities. We serve an average of 165 consumers per session (4 sessions per year). Our program has a satisfaction rating of 95.38.
$658,643 spent$648,930 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $658,643.
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 2018 to 2019, from $48k to $452k (+836%).
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: 2017 68% · 2018 69% · 2019 43% · 2020 16% · 2021 26% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Caprina Wakefield
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100k → $125k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS’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
SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 80% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS: 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 SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS?
- SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,892 to it, the largest being SCHAEFFER FOUNDATION ($510,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $644,892 in grants to SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS?
- SCHAEFFER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $510,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS 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 5 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