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STOWERS POLICY INSTITUTE INC

EIN 20-3270502 KANSAS CITY, MO

Revenue 2024
$812,870
Expenses 2024
$276,642

Program services were 72.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
G01
Classification
3000
Street
1000 E 50TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE O

Activities or mission (Part I)

STOWERS POLICY INSTITUTE INC.'S ("SPI") EXEMPT PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE INNOVATIVE AND ETHICAL BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, THERAPIES, AND (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

  • FINANCIAL SUPPORT - TO FURTHER SPI'S EXEMPT PURPOSE, SPI PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO OTHER 501(C)(4) TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS THAT WERE ENGAGED IN ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN SPI'S PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE. SPI PROVIDED THIS SUPPORT TO FACILITATE THESE ORGANIZATIONS' ABILITY TO PROMOTE INNOVATIVE AND ETHICAL BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, THERAPIES AND CURES, AND TO ADVOCATE FOR A POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT THAT ADVANCES, FACILITATES AND PROTECTS THAT RESEARCH.

    Expenses $200,000 · Grants $200,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CHARLES GERMAN

    DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $1,246,306
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $1,165,721
    Other
    $80,585
    Hours/week
    1 + 48 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $1,146,011 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $19,710 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $51,750 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $28,835 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $1,246,306 related

  • JONATHAN THOMAS

    DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT BEGINNING OF SERVICE 3/24/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 16 related

  • PENNY M SPENCE

    DIRECTOR/CFO/TREASURER THRU 4/8/25

    Total calculated
    $833,432
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $753,782
    Other
    $79,650
    Hours/week
    1 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $752,972 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $810 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $51,750 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $27,900 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $833,432 related

  • RICHARD W BROWN

    DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT DECEASED 3/27/25

    Total calculated
    $3,206,337
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $3,103,954
    Other
    $102,383
    Hours/week
    1 + 48 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $3,054,433 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $49,521 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $51,750 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $50,633 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $3,206,337 related

  • DAVID A WELTE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 8 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $812,870
    Expenses
    $276,642
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $200,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $649,100
    Expenses
    $520,297
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $400,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $176,531
    Expenses
    $247,305
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $200,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,391,707
    Expenses
    $482,675
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $400,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,100,830
    Expenses
    $409,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,537,171

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,163,400
    Expenses
    $607,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,333,849

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,529,395
    Expenses
    $406,168
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,172,874

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,346,208
    Expenses
    $407,583
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,483,454

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $676,103
    Expenses
    $397,314
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,343,982

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $695,083
    Expenses
    $193,986
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,748,110

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,432,554
    Expenses
    $178,826
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,737,000

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,028,248
    Expenses
    $22,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,221,907

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $115,114
    Expenses
    $888,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,379,551

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $158,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,293,401

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.