Kansas City Center for Inclusion Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811273605
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 9136454997
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,398
- Expenses
- $139,739
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keaton Vaughn (Past President)
- Parker Cormer (President)
People named in this filing
- Keaton Vaughn (Past President)
- Parker Cormer (President)
- Rachael Cady (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kansas City Center for Inclusion is Kansas City's LGBTQIA+ resource and community center. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Founded in 2012 as LikeMe Lighthouse, we rebranded as Kansas City Center for Inclusion (KCCI) in 2017. Our Mission Kansas City Center for Inclusion creates a more inclusive community by empowering and supporting LGBTQIA2S+ people. We do this through: peer led support groups, programs focused on education, resources, and connection, and by uplifting the work of others in our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through a partnership with the ACLU we make grants to individuals to help cover the cost of legally changing their name to align with their gender identity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.9%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 2
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -104.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.9% of revenue deployed · 1.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.