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UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC

UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,088 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($62,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.2M
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$294k
Net assets
$463k
15/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Uplift Organization Inc does

Mission

Uplift provides food, clothing, and other essentials directly to people experiencing homelessness in the Kansas City metropolitan area through volunteer-led street outreach.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Uplift Organization Inc. is a mobile street-outreach nonprofit serving people experiencing homelessness across the Kansas City area. Three nights each week, four Sprinter vans loaded with food, clothing, hygiene items, blankets, and survival supplies travel established routes to meet individuals where they live: under bridges, in parks, and at camps. 1. Served - 53,518 meals (119,110 lbs of food valued at $326,002). 2. Distributed in-kind clothing and essential items valued at $1,626,947. 3. Mobilized 3,631 volunteers contributing 35,667 hours. 4. Provided direct care and connection to hundreds of neighbors experiencing homelessness each week through hands-on encounter and consistent presence.

    $2,271,466 spentof which $2,006,867 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,271,466.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($212k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 100 ($496k)2021 Revenue 141 ($299k) Expenses 158 ($143k) Net assets 124 ($614k)2022 Revenue 80 ($169k) Expenses 233 ($212k) Net assets 115 ($571k)2023 Revenue 112 ($238k) Expenses 298 ($271k) Net assets 108 ($538k)2024 Revenue 1055 ($2.2M) Expenses 2547 ($2.3M) Net assets 93 ($463k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (1055)Expenses (2547)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $496k to $618k (+25%).

$496k
$618k
$579k
$538k
$464k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$121k
’20
$156k
’21
−$43k
’22
−$33k
’23
−$80k
’24
2.2
months of
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

Michael Bartkoski

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed119867
Joined·+0+1+0+2
No longer listed·2221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $7k → $21k.

8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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

UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

55% 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 UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC.

21%
largest funder
41%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 28% · 2021 24% · 2022 70% · 2023 48% — 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

8% of UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 10 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
WI
CA
MO
KS
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)80% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC?
UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,088 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($62,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $294,088 in grants to UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC?
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $62,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UPLIFT ORGANIZATION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 34 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