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CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS INC

EIN 43-1859283 KANSAS CITY, MO

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Revenue 2024
$3,859,054
Expenses 2024
$3,130,236

Program services were 79.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
J99
Classification
1000
Street
300 W LINWOOD BLVD

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

WE INSPIRE FAMILIES TO REALIZE THEIR DREAMS AND ACHIEVE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE BY PROVIDING HOPE, RESOURCES AND A PLAN.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS FULFILLS ITS VISION OF BEING A LEADER IN EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS IN THEIR TRANSFORMATION TO ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE THROUGH ITS MISSION OF INSPIRING FAMILIES TO REALIZE THEIR DREAMS AND ACHIEVE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE BY PROVIDING HOPE, RESOURCES, AND A PLAN. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH A HOLISTIC FAMILY OF SERVICES UNDER OUR PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS PROGRAM THAT ASSIST INDIVIDUALS WITH PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, LIFE TRANSFORMATION COACHING, LINKAGES TO EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE, JOB READINESS SKILLS, MENTORING AND SUPPORT, HEALTH AND WELLNESS INITIATIVES, TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE, AND GOAL SETTING. PROGRAMS ARE OFFERED IN THE ST. LOUIS, ST. CHARLES, COLUMBIA, AND KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREAS.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $2,332,368 · Grants $204,151

  • PROGRAM REPLICATION: PROVIDES TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THIRD PARTY ORGANIZATIONS IN REPLICATING PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS PROGRAM. CURRENTLY ARE ENGAGED WITH FOUR AGENCIES LOCATED IN WENTZVILLE, MO, SALINA, KS, TOPEKA, KS, AND CASPER, WY IN REPLICATING PATHWAYS PROGRAM.

    Expenses $86,261 · Revenue $123,844

  • DRESS FOR SUCCESS MIDWEST AND KANSAS CITY: SUPPORTS UNEMPLOYED AND UNDEREMPLOYED WOMEN IN ACHIEVING ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE AND THRIVING IN BOTH WORK AND LIFE, THROUGH CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND PROFESSIONAL STYLING SERVICES. SINCE ITS FOUNDING, THE PROGRAM HAS SERVED OVER 30,000 WOMEN. CURRENTLY, BOUTIQUES IN ST. CHARLES AND KANSAS CITY SERVE MORE THAN 1,000 WOMEN EACH YEAR.OTHER SERVICES AVAILABLE TO WOMEN COMING THROUGH DRESS FOR SUCCESS INCLUDE:STYLING SERVICES: THE PROGRAM PROVIDES BUSINESS CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES TO WOMEN PREPARING FOR EMPLOYMENT, WITH REFERRALS RECEIVED FROM OVER 200 NONPROFITS THROUGHOUT THE REGION. THROUGH A PERSONAL STYLING EXPERIENCE WITH A TRAINED VOLUNTEER, EACH WOMAN RECEIVES A LIKE-NEW BUSINESS SUIT WITH ALL ACCESSORIES. PROFESSIONAL WOMENS' GROUP (PWG): A JOB RETENTION PROGRAM DESIGNED FOR ENTRY-LEVEL WOMEN WHO HAVE GAINED EMPLOYMENT, PROVIDING A NETWORK OF SUPPORT, PRACTICAL INFORMATION, AND INSPIRATION TO ACHIEVE SELF-DEFINED SUCCESS IN CAREER AND LIFE. PWG MEETINGS ARE HELD MONTHLY IN THE EVENING TO PROVIDE ONGOING SUPPORT.CAREER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS: VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN FINANCIAL LITERACY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND WORKFORCE READINESS.

    Expenses $64,876

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Wendy Savlin

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jeff Morris

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Eric Madkins

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Madeline Franz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Carla Smocks

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rosalina Syahriar

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rev Robin Morgan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Poonnasa Corn

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Leslie A Boe

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth J Lawson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michelle Moersch

    PRESIDENT (TERM END 3/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dr Tyjuan Lee

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Samantha Marble

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Melanie O'Brien

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Laquinta Scott

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Virginia Van Berkum

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Brandilyn Jahnke

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $120,612
    From this org
    $116,046
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,566
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,859,054
    Expenses
    $3,130,236
    Contributions
    $3,799,414
    Grants paid
    $204,151
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,244,760
    Expenses
    $2,521,324
    Contributions
    $3,198,870
    Grants paid
    $184,171
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,152,093
    Expenses
    $2,375,302
    Contributions
    $2,060,779
    Grants paid
    $3,280

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
    $2,864,448
    Expenses
    $3,205,400
    Assets (EOY)
    $974,853

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,235,735
    Expenses
    $4,086,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,014,660

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,347,164
    Expenses
    $4,210,561
    Assets (EOY)
    $988,754

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,143,830
    Expenses
    $3,909,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,034,702

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,956,323
    Expenses
    $3,698,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $837,031

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,594,228
    Expenses
    $3,430,713
    Assets (EOY)
    $853,007

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,872,263
    Expenses
    $3,005,578
    Assets (EOY)
    $267,506

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,944,470
    Expenses
    $3,072,282
    Assets (EOY)
    $541,801

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,114,406
    Expenses
    $3,017,719
    Assets (EOY)
    $535,625

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,333,341
    Expenses
    $2,330,141
    Assets (EOY)
    $368,075

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.