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WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,499 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($50,499). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$8k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$55k
Net assets
$3k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What West Plains Economic Development Corporation does

Mission

Promote business and industrial expansion, increase tourism, promote the increase in the availability of employment and promote the general economic welfare of the area including the city of west plains missouri, howell county, missouri and nearby cities and counites.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Promote business and industrial expansion, increase tourism, promote the increase in the availability of employment and promote the general economic welfare of the area including the city of west plains missouri, howell county, missouri and nearby cities and counites.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($121k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2019 Revenue 163 ($197k) Expenses 136 ($189k) Net assets 399 ($11k)2020 Revenue 172 ($208k) Expenses 112 ($156k) Net assets 2284 ($63k)2021 Revenue 84 ($101k) Expenses 96 ($134k) Net assets 1099 ($30k)2022 Revenue 6 ($8k) Expenses 25 ($35k) Net assets 121 ($3k)
20182019202020212022
Revenue (6)Expenses (25)Net assets (121)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 2019 to 2020, from $15k to $67k (+355%).

$6k
$15k
$67k
$34k
$3k
20182019202020212022
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 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.

−$18k
’18
$8k
’19
$52k
’20
−$33k
’21
−$27k
’22
3.1
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

Dave Thomas

Chairman

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

20202021
Listed88
Joined·+4
No longer listed·4
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $5k.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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

WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91% 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 PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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.

Where its funders are

91% of WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's revenue fell 94% between 2018 and 2022.

Operating margin−361% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−50% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,327 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,499 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($50,499). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,499 in grants to WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Who is the largest funder of WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,499 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEST PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 2 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