Missouri · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC (Missouri) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,008,657 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($6,694,585). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Special Olympics Missouri Inc does
Mission
Through year-round sports and training, individuals with intellectual disabilities are given the chance to gain confidence, seek opportunities to improve their physical fitness, demonstrate pride, and participate in their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Special olympics missouri (somo) serves individuals with intellectual disabilities each year by combining the health, fitness, social and emotional benefits resulting from sports participation. Somo increased service capacities for more athletes when we moved into the new training for life campus. This world-class facility, centrally located for the current 15,660 participating athletes statewide (including athletes, unified partners, young athletes, ucs athletes and ucs unified partners) and many more athletes who are not currently participating, offers somo the ability to host various day camps, connects somo with the community and offers unparalleled athlete opportunities. Special olympics missouri, inc. Received over $750k in budget relieving contributed services. While this amount is excluded from form 990 calculations, somo believes this is integral to our success. Athletes who participate in special olympics can double the likelihood to find and keep employment, making it far more than a sports organization. The motor skills of our children participating in the young athletes program improved at twice the rate of children who were not involved. Research indicates developed…
$3,999,272 spent$30,586 earned by the program99% of program spendingThe healthy athletes program is an initiative developed by special olympics, inc., with a mission of improving the overall health of our athletes through various health screenings. This program offers athletes the opportunity to improve their health in an environment focusing on the needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities. Screening programs include funfitness, healthy hearing, fit feet, health promotion, opening eyes, special smiles, and medfest. With the help of local volunteer health professionals, for every $1 spent for healthy athletes programing, $7 is returned in pro bono services. All healthy athletes programs are provided free of charge to all special olympics athletes, with 1,668 screenings administered in 2023.
$21,133 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,020,405.
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 2017 to 2018, from $10M to $16M (+57%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Larry Linthacum
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 33 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $1.0M.
16 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Somo Endowment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 86% · 2019 84% · 2020 70% · 2021 75% · 2022 70% · 2023 69% — 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
39% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $570k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Somo Endowment Fund Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC (Missouri) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,008,657 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($6,694,585). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $10,008,657 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,694,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI 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 111 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