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GIVING THE BASICS INC

EIN 45-3069975 KANSAS CITY, KS

Revenue 2025
$14,201,502
Expenses 2025
$10,948,868

Program services were 91.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
927 S 7TH 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 · 2025

Mission

GIVING THE BASICS PROVIDES THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE, NOT COVERED BY GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, SUCH AS LAUNDRY SOAP, SHAMPOO, DEODORANT, TOILET PAPER AND OTHER PERSONAL CARE HYGIENE PRODUCTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

GIVING THE BASICS PROVIDES ESSENTIAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS TO LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES.

  • GIVING THE BASICS DISTRIBUTES, FREE OF CHARGE, PERSONAL CARE HYGIENE PRODUCTS TO 251 FOOD PANTRIES, SENIOR CENTERS, AND HOMELESS SHELTERS, 519 SCHOOLS AND 23 POLICE DIVISIONS IN THE GREATER KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. GIVING THE BASICS ALSO DISTRIBUTES HYGIENE PRODUCTS TO 584 RURAL SCHOOLS ACROSS THE STATE OF KANSAS AND HAS 27 REGISTERED NATIONAL ORGANIZATION PARTNERS WHO SERVE AN ADDITIONAL 1,129 LOCATIONS. PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTED INCLUDE CLEANING SUPPLIES, BRUSHES/COMBS, SHAMPOO, LOTION, DEODORANT, FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS, LAUNDRY SOAP, TISSUES, SOAP, TOOTHBRUSHES, TOOTHPASTE, TOILET PAPER AND INCONTINENCE PRODUCTS. THESE ITEMS ARE NOT COVERED BY GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE AND ARE VITAL FOR BASIC HUMAN DIGNITY.

    Expenses $10,045,901 · Grants $9,057,661 · Revenue $47,301

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • TERESA HAMILTON

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $33,762
    From this org
    $30,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,762
    Hours/week
    40

  • STACEY HOWE

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • RON EDELMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HEATH HOOBING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRIS HUTCHINGS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRIAN LEITNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRISTI MACALUSO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BILL MARSHALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREW MILLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JACK MONTGOMERY

    DIRECTOR (TERM START 07/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANNA MARIE VOGEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAKE WALDENMEYER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHANDRA GOEBEL

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $141,999
    From this org
    $133,311
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,688
    Hours/week
    40

  • ERIK ACINGER

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $135,462
    From this org
    $124,127
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,335
    Hours/week
    40

  • MATT KARR

    DIRECTOR OF GROWTH

    Total calculated
    $183,535
    From this org
    $166,523
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,012
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,023
    Bonus
    $32,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,012
    Filer's total
    $183,535

  • NICK HARDESTY

    DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $140,074
    From this org
    $117,906
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,168
    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. 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $14,201,502
    Expenses
    $10,948,868
    Contributions
    $14,065,156
    Grants paid
    $9,057,661
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,838,930
    Expenses
    $6,951,232
    Contributions
    $6,695,656
    Grants paid
    $5,365,079
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,923,867
    Expenses
    $5,258,072
    Contributions
    $5,806,327
    Grants paid
    $3,949,867
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,559,859
    Expenses
    $3,180,074
    Contributions
    $3,284,104
    Grants paid
    $2,203,213

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
    $2,942,407
    Expenses
    $2,806,376
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,181,143

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,082,150
    Expenses
    $3,145,219
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,149,028

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,427,853
    Expenses
    $2,962,040
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,104,455

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,727,095
    Expenses
    $2,358,715
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,657,375

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,362,553
    Expenses
    $1,906,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,282,538

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

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

Where these grants went next →

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 13 October 2026, under deductibility GROUP.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.