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COMMUNITIES CREATING OPPORTUNITY

EIN 43-1127845 KANSAS CITY, MO

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Revenue 2023
$99,848
Expenses 2023
$141,177

Program services were 50.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R99
Classification
1200
Street
2400 TROOST AVE SUITE 4600

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 · 2023

Primary exempt purpose

Organizes communities for racial justice and social change.

  • Communities Creating Opportunity's work focuses on building the capacity of directly impacted people to change racialized systems and structures. Our engagement here is primarily about disrupting and transforming the systemic barriers most responsible for perpetuating the disparities (e.g., racial equity, civic participation, healthcare access, and economic equity) that limit their ability to live full and healthy lives. Focused programs for 2023 included efforts to improve human health in low life expectancy zip codes in Kansas City, MO neighborhoods: (1) improve Covid -19 vaccination and influenza rates in our zip codes for Senior and adults with disabilities to include awareness and education about the vaccines, incentives, making appointments and providing transportation to clinics, pharmacies, etc. (2) Educate on the topic of healthy eating and continue to fight food insecurity. And, 3) Continue to provide monthly support to local food banks with volunteers and promotions.

    Expenses $71,806

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Danise Hartfield

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $38,959
    Compensation
    $38,959
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Cynthia Saddler

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sondra Akers

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • Debra Payne

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • Lloyd Fields

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Anthony Washington

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $99,848
    Expenses
    $141,177
    Contributions
    $99,835
    Grants paid
    $250

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

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $423,565
    Expenses
    $697,217
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,627

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $783,271
    Expenses
    $753,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $373,555

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,010,202
    Expenses
    $832,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $336,393

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $781,486
    Expenses
    $889,637
    Assets (EOY)
    $161,235

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2021, reinstated 15 May 2021.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.