Missouri · Nonprofit
SUBURBAN BALANCE
SUBURBAN BALANCE (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,540 to it, the largest being Kansas Health Foundation ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $246k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $397k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Suburban Balance does
Mission
To provide educational and cultural opportunities to suburban kids of color to help them experience a well-balanced life while growing up in suburban school districts or attend schools that lack diversity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Entrepreneurship Economic Mobility support workshops and mentoring program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
In 2025, Suburban Balance held numerous educational forums centered around topics such as economic inclusion as a pathway to health equity, educational equity, race relations, college, and career education, and the importance of voting, voter education skilled trades, workforce development, certification programs, mentorship and it's benefits on health, advancing economic mobility. These non-partisan forums were held to build positive relationships with the surrounding communities and school districts, and to also learn about school boards and mayoral candidates running for elected offices. A "Get out the Vote Educational Rally" was held and provided information on voter registration, voting deadlines, polling stations, sample ballots, a plan to vote, and an opportunity to hear from the candidates during the non-Partisan candidate forum. Suburban Balance also launched an event that focused on mental health and building generational wealth. This initiative was launched through the educational programs called LIFT HIM UP and LIFT HER UP for girls. In 2025, Suburban Balance hosted the "Lift Her Up" Event which is an inspirational and uplifting program that recognizes the scarifies of…
$126,740 spent$42,444 earned by the program60% of program spendingIn 2025, 55 High school Seniors are graduating out of Suburban Balance(adding to the total of a little over 500 students since the founding in 2012) and heading off to college or into a certification program or workforce development training program. Suburban helped connect students to paid internships in the careers they are pursuing. Suburban Balance successfully built a relationship with major school district in Kansas which resulted in the non-profit launching the C.A.R. E. program(college and career access readiness education) to help build the essential competencies of students to help them navigate applying for college and we have helped connect them to job training and workforce development program called CARE which offers mentors to help support college students through college completion. The organization continued our efforts to recruit CARE coaches and now have 20 C.A.R.E. coaches part of the program. CARE stands for college and career access readiness education. An initiative to help change the trajectory of declining college enrollment rates and declining college graduation rates amongst black students. This is a huge accomplishment. The program is reaching over 200…
$84,493 spentof which $15,750 as grants40% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,233.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $46k to $169k (+263%).
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.
82% of SUBURBAN BALANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
LaShawn Walker
President & CEO
Board chair
Dr Pamela Webb
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $50k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SUBURBAN BALANCE’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
SUBURBAN BALANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 SUBURBAN BALANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
0% of SUBURBAN BALANCE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% 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
56% of SUBURBAN BALANCE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k 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
SUBURBAN BALANCE is better cushioned than half of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SUBURBAN BALANCE
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 SUBURBAN BALANCE: 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 SUBURBAN BALANCE?
- SUBURBAN BALANCE (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,540 to it, the largest being Kansas Health Foundation ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUBURBAN BALANCE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $396,540 in grants to SUBURBAN BALANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUBURBAN BALANCE?
- Kansas Health Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUBURBAN BALANCE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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