The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
430822397
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Kansas City, MO, USA
Phone
8162212263
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,824,603
Expenses
$2,449,612
Assets
$2,994,998
Liabilities
$584,056

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

Leadership & pay

31 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FLOYD MAY III (PRESIDENT)
  • CONSUELO ROSS (VICE PRESIDENT, INTERIM PR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CONSUELO ROSS (VICE PRESIDENT, INTERIM PR): $189,301 total reported compensation
  • LIA MCINTOSH (DIRECTOR OF KC RISING): $160,140 total reported compensation
  • MEGAN CROOK (DIRECTOR OF POLICY): $134,274 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To accelerate growth in the region's prosperity and quality of life for all by strategically deploying the personal and corporate resources, influence and expertise of the region's business and civic leaders.

What it reported doing in 2025

The civic council sponsors a nine-month civic leadership development program called Kansas city tomorrow (kct). The civic council believes that the ongoing success of any community demands that its current leaders put considerable effort toward identifying, encouraging, and developing its future leaders. With a mission to be the best source of new leadership anywhere in the region, kct has an impressive track record and a laudable list of more than 1300 alumni - including several current members of the civic council - who today hold senior positions in business, civic, philanthropic, and not-for-profit organizations across the Kansas city area. The kct program was transferred to the civic council foundation in 2022, but civic council still supports the program with funding, resources, and support.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.3%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 82.3%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 98.2%; rating input score 98; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.3%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.3% of revenue deployed · 82.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $189K · 31 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $269K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.