Kansas · Nonprofit
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY (Kansas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,796,045 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($3,774,341). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $10M
What The Family Conservancy does
Mission
Helping children and families achieve a lifetime of success.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Improving early care and education - The Family Conservancy improves the quality of early care and education programs throughout the kansas city community. By improving quality, we ensure all children are able to take advantage of the unrivaled opportunities that exist during the first five years of life-a critical period for cognitive, social, and emotional development that forms the foundation for success in kindergarten and life. In 2024, we trained and provided coaching to over 6,000 early educators, provided business support to child care directors and owners, improved the health and nutrition of hundreds of children, and supported the social-emotional well-being of thousands of children.
$9,489,125 spent68% of program spendingBuilding strong families - The Family Conservancy supports families as primary caregivers and educators. When families receive the support they need, it strengthens their ability to provide nurturing and enriching environments for young children. By offering resources, referrals, and education, The Family Conservancy empowers families to navigate the challenges of raising children, enhance their knowledge of child development, and foster healthy parent-child relationships. This support enables parents to better meet the physical, emotional, and cognitive needs of their children, promoting optimal growth and development. In 2024, we increased access to quality early education by creating more availability and stability of child care providers; provided temporary financial assistance for child care costs to help parents with gainful employment; connected hundreds of low-income families with free, high-quality child care; and provided hands-on, onsite parenting education to hundreds of marginalized families to support children's developmental needs.
$3,025,658 spentof which $671,146 as grants$235,703 earned by the program22% of program spendingBuilding resilience - The Family Conservancy provides a vital lifeline for families, offering them a safe space to express their emotions, cope with stress, overcome trauma, and develop effective strategies to manage parenting challenges and support healthy children. Therapy and case management are provided in spanish and english, and aim to meet families where they are by providing in-person, in-home, and virtual services, as well as community-integrated programming. In 2024, hundreds of families participated in our training and consultation to better understand and support their child's social-emotional needs; we supported mothers experiencing postpartum depression with in-home cognitive behavioral therapy; and provided outpatient mental health support and case management to hundreds of people experiencing mental health crises, such as depression, anxiety, ptsd, and more.
$1,375,147 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,889,930.
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 $6.8M to $8.6M (+27%).
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 79% · 2018 61% · 2019 49% · 2020 66% · 2021 67% · 2022 69% · 2023 72% · 2024 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
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
Paula Neth
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $2.8M → $1.5M.
8 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% 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 THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 20% · 2019 21% · 2020 30% · 2021 36% · 2022 30% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $18M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$53.4M
- General Services Administration$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY
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 Kansas
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY?
- THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY (Kansas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,796,045 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($3,774,341). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $17,796,045 in grants to THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY?
- United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,774,341 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 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