United Way of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas Inc

Analysis

United Way of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Joplin, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2025. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2021, United Way of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas Inc reported income of $713k and spending of $761k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income fell from $896k to $713k (-20%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, United Way of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas Inc sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Laramie Plains Civic Center Inc ($712k), Preble County Development Partnership ($713k) and Clay County Economic Development Corporation ($711k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 1.0% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $82k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $110k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $196k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 4 employees.