Missouri Disability Empowerment Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831833544
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Rolla, MO, USA
Phone
8652300177
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$48,465
Expenses
$50,160
Assets
$39,551
Liabilities
$11,705

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amanda Chaney (Board of Directors President)
  • Tamatha Lueck (Board of Directors Vice President)
  • Tracey Bloch (Director of Advocacy/Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Amanda Chaney (Board of Directors President)
  • Tamatha Lueck (Board of Directors Vice President)
  • Molly Myers (Board of Directors Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Grants and advocacy for disability related issues

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide grants to pay for special education advocate training - direct training of 1 advocate that will assist appx 50 families with special education issues.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 35.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -25.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.