Missouri · Nonprofit
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,727,543 to it, the largest being MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ($1,115,334). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What West Central Missouri Community Action Agency does
Mission
West central helps people and communities reach their fullest potential by cultivating and coordinating resources, building partnerships, and advocating for change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
West central's housing choice voucher (hcv) program: provided over 1,080 households with the opportunity to live in decent, safe, and sanitary housing of their choice. Participants of the hcv program are offered the chance to participate in the housing family self-sufficiency (fss) program. This program offers approximately 141 families an opportunity to work on removing barriers to their success in order to become self-sufficient.
$8,754,271 spentof which $8,139,539 as grants$862,037 earned by the program61% of program spendingCommunity services served 1,029 individuals in 509 households through family and community engagement strategy services, with 93 percent of them achieving one or more outcomes. Ninety-nine point eight three percent of the 5,802 individuals receiving liheap assistance avoided a utility shut off. One hundred percent of enrolled seniors 65+ and 100 percent of those with disabilities were able to maintain independent living. Ninety-nine percent of individuals receiving food pantry distributions reported a better sense of food security. Workforce you continued to grow, engaging the community in addressing workforce barriers through focused events including a transportation summit, child care and mapping, and a housing mixer. Workforce you launched a ground breaking partnership with a local child care provider and school district, bringing 48 new openings at a licensed facility accepting state subsidy, and offering a sliding fee scale. Eight community partner mous were established to work jointly and build opportunities in the community. One foster care simulation with 14 community members and participants attending. One hundred percent of step up to leadership program participants…
$3,238,826 spent$849,555 earned by the program23% of program spendingWest central's energy conservation unit administers the weatherization assistance program (wap): this program enables low-income families to reduce their energy bills by making their homes more energy efficient. Funds are used to improve the energy performance of dwellings for families in need, using the most advanced technologies and testing procedures available in the housing industry. The unit also administers the home repair opportunity program (hero). This program provides funding to meet the needs for home repair, modification, and maintenance for low and moderate income homeowners in the non-metropolitan areas of missouri. West central weatherized 58 homes and rehabilitated 18 homes in fiscal year 2025 through these programs.
$2,255,335 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,248,432.
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 2019 to 2020, from $19M to $7.2M (−62%).
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 88% · 2018 86% · 2019 85% · 2020 81% · 2021 81% · 2022 86% · 2023 84% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Fred R Bunch
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $36k → $256k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 93% · 2019 53% · 2020 76% · 2021 86% · 2022 80% · 2023 51% — 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
78% of WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
94% of WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.7M
- Department of Agriculture$2.6M
- Small Business Administration$1.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$689k
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 WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 14 related entities
- Appleton Estates · disregarded
- Walnut Estates · disregarded
- West Central Missouri Greenleaf Estates Corporation · exempt
- West Central Missouri Prairie Estates Inc · exempt
- West Central Missouri Maplewood Estates Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,727,543 to it, the largest being MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ($1,115,334). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,727,543 in grants to WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $1,115,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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