North Kansas City Business Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431675346
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- North Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8164727700
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $277,559
- Expenses
- $292,045
- Assets
- $156,011
- Liabilities
- $4,772
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD GROVES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JASON CROWLEY (PAST PRESIDENT)
- RICH GALLOWAY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NIC RISENBERG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD GROVES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ALEXIS BEST (STAFF)
- BROOKS BROWN (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Primary exempt purpose: the purpose of the north Kansas city business council is to encourage, improve, foster, and stimulate commerce, trade, business and business conditions, tourism and the image of the city of north Kansas city, mo, and to promote the common interest of its
What it reported doing in 2025
Primary exempt purpose: the purpose of the north Kansas city business council is to encourage, improve, foster, and stimulate commerce, trade, business and business conditions, tourism and the image of the city of north Kansas city, mo, and to promote the common interest of its membership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
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: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.9%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 2
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.9% of revenue deployed · 1.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.