Missouri · Nonprofit
WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND
WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,449,951 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($1,391,106). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Working Families Friend does
Mission
The primary purpose of the organization is the provision of assistance, training and support to working families which are in need. Services offered include emergency assistance, community counseling, board and leadership training, and retirement services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Direct emergency and assistance, training, and support to working families in need.
$537,109 spentof which $408,653 as grants64% of program spendingAdvocacy and support for constituents.
$315,636 spent37% of program spendingRecreation event for constituents and supporters.
$-10,662 spent-1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $842,083.
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 $1.2M to $1.3M (+17%).
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: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Rocky Kloth
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $323k → $215k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $222k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Kansas City Labor Council Afl-Cio). These are real filings, and they are not money WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND raised.
From the IRS filings of WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND’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
WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 86% · 2019 84% · 2020 78% · 2021 77% · 2022 21% · 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
40% of WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
93% of WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND: 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 WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND?
- WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,449,951 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($1,391,106). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,449,951 in grants to WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND?
- United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,391,106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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