GrantmakersMissouri

Alliance for Life - Missouri Inc

Lees Summit, MO · EIN 46-0489686. Reported 119 grants totalling $7,759,001 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

35organizations funded
$32,034median reported grant
$7,759,001granted, 2021-2024
93%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Alliance for Life - Missouri Inc, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R02) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 93% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $32,034. Half of what it reported fell between $17,592 and $66,087; the smallest was $5,306 and the largest $373,003. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
42 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
27 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
20 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
15 grants
$250,000 Or More
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Our Ladys InnSaint Louis, MO$1,134,555442024
Rachel House Pregnancy Resource Centers IncLees Summit, MO$1,028,465442024
Queen of Peace CenterSaint Louis, MO$896,594442024
Thrive St Louis IncSaint Louis, MO$733,528442024
Pregnancy Care CenterSpringfield, MO$690,256442024
Living Alternatives Pregnancy ServicesBranson, MO$324,497442024
Free Womens Center of Pulaski CountyWaynesville, MO$317,073642024
Jefferson County Pregnancy Care CenterHouse Springs, MO$265,639442024
Options Pregnancy Clinic of AvaAva, MO$217,833442024
South County Pregnancy Help CenterSaint Louis, MO$190,856442024
Nightlight Christian AdoptionsSanta Ana, CA$190,386442024
Lifeline Pregnancy Help ClinicKirksville, MO$188,462442024
Riverways Pregnancy Resource CenterSalem, MO$149,677442024
Bethany Christian Services IncGrand Rapids, MI$148,911222022
Pregnancy Life LineBranson West, MO$140,168442024
Ray of Hope Pregnancy Care MinistriesMacon, MO$95,149442024
Pregnancy Resource Center of Mountain GroveMountain Grv, MO$87,267442024
House of Ruth Womens Resource Clinic IncRepublic, MO$83,489442024
Christian Family Services IncSaint Louis, MO$80,603442024
St Marys Home for Mothers IncLiberty, MO$77,055332024
Eben MinistriesBelton, MO$74,455332024
Life Network of Central MissouriColumbia, MO$73,113442024
Ste Genevieve Area Center for LifeSte Genevieve, MO$72,949332024
Zoes House Adoption Agency IncOverland Park, KS$72,005222024
Tri-County Pregnancy Resource CenterAurora, MO$69,490442024
Yourothermother IncUnion, MO$60,043442024
Lifeline Pregnancy Care CenterCuba, MO$56,714442024
Golden Valley Door of HopeClinton, MO$50,342112021
Pregnancy Help Center Serving the Lake of the OzarksCamdenton, MO$50,342442024
Pregnancy Resource Center of West PlainsWest Plains, MO$39,212222024
Care Net Pregnancy Resource Center of Neosho IncorporatedNeosho, MO$33,463332024
Alpha HouseBolivar, MO$19,751222022
A Gift of Hope Adoptions IncColumbia, MO$18,247222024
Metro Associates IncSaint Louis, MO$16,368112021
Hand N Hand Pregnancy Help CenterBarnhart, MO$12,044112024

32 of 35 (91%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 2 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 35 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
18 orgs
Health Care
9 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Religion
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202128$1,956,347$30,256
202229$1,877,842$23,291
202330$2,029,387$38,182
202432$1,895,425$34,926

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

95% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Missouri
$7.3M
California
$190K
Michigan
$149K
Kansas
$72K

Down to the city

Saint Louis, MO
$3.1M
Lees Summit, MO
$1.0M
Springfield, MO
$690K
Branson, MO
$324K
Waynesville, MO
$317K
House Springs, MO
$266K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsColumbian Charities of Mo Inc11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation7 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $32,034 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Missouri.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Alliance for Life - Missouri Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 487 Sw Ward Road, Lees Summit, MO, 64081.

EIN 46-0489686 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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