Missouri · Nonprofit
UMKC FOUNDATION
UMKC FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,786,464 to it, the largest being Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation ($4,399,762). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $87M
What Umkc Foundation does
Mission
Umkc Foundation's sole purpose is to benefit the university of missouri - kansas city (umkc) by supporting (through funds raised, held and administered by the foundation) academic programs and educational opportunities that will enhance umkc over and above those which are funded with state support, student fees and tuition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Umkc Foundation ("foundation") and its employees have the primary responsibility for the solicitation of contributions from private sources for the support of umkc. The foundation solicits contributions which are made to the foundation and held and administered by the foundation for the benefit of umkc. The foundation also solicits contributions which are made directly to umkc or to one of its schools or supporting organizations. The fundraising efforts of the foundation produced the results as shown on the statement of revenue, part viii. The efforts of the foundation have produced pledges and planned giving commitments as shown on the balance sheet, part x. The foundation made grants from earnings of its endowment funds held by the foundation to support various umkc programs in the amounts as shown on the statement of functional expenses, part ix.
$34,681,762 spentof which $33,865,116 as grants$2,401,627 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $34,681,762.
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 2019 to 2020, from $46M to $78M (+70%).
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: 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of UMKC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Robert Regnier
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $685k → $4.1M.
20 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $43M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Kansas City Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UMKC FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of UMKC FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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
UMKC FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 44% · 2019 43% · 2020 57% · 2021 20% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% — 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
47% of UMKC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
70% of UMKC FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
UMKC FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UMKC FOUNDATION
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Umkc Research Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UMKC FOUNDATION: 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 UMKC FOUNDATION?
- UMKC FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,786,464 to it, the largest being Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation ($4,399,762). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UMKC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $24,786,464 in grants to UMKC FOUNDATION, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UMKC FOUNDATION?
- Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,399,762 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UMKC FOUNDATION 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.
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 121 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