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ELEVATE METRO KC

EIN 83-3698822 KANSAS CITY, MO

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Revenue 2024
$847,759
Expenses 2024
$676,847

Program services were 47.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
1000
Street
4801 LIBERTY 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

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To build long-term, life-changing relationships with youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.

  • Elevate Metro KC (EMKC) programs produce generations of "thriving contributors" who impact the world around them. EMKC does not want kids to just survive through school but thrive in all areas of life. EMKC goes deep into the lives of youth to develop virtues like honesty, diligence, and respect. To achieve this, EMKC hires full-time teacher-mentors who teach classes in character and leadership inside the school and build relationships with students after school and throughout the summer. Additionally, after learning key character traits, the high school students go to the local elementary schools every week to teach the character traits they just learned themselves to fourth and fifth graders. This immediate application instills ownership and responsibility to live out the virtues in their community. By introducing students to positive and caring adults, students gain positive role models, no longer navigating life's toughest challenges alone. This relationship-based, application-infused model is designed to help students grow holistically as they (1) develop social-emotional skills, (2) strengthen their character, (3) positively engage in their community, and (4) experience school success. Elevate Metro KC students at Center High School, Center Middle School and Center Elementary for total of 253 students with plans for expansion. Center School District is one of the more impoverished districts in greater Kansas City.

    Expenses $320,842

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.

  • Christopher Jehle

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $101,012
    From this org
    $97,547
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,465
    Hours/week
    40

  • David Larrabee

    Chair and Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Rob Merrill

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Donna Crosswhite

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carrie Robson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Stubblefield

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hank Hershey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leonard Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gordon Criswell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Ruckman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $847,759
    Expenses
    $676,847
    Contributions
    $835,725
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $509,144
    Expenses
    $629,506
    Contributions
    $497,936
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $558,439
    Expenses
    $517,386
    Contributions
    $555,580
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $370,938
    Expenses
    $425,555
    Assets (EOY)
    $588,230

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $639,054
    Expenses
    $317,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $638,156

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $402,422
    Expenses
    $296,997
    Assets (EOY)
    $360,182

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $243,651
    Expenses
    $43,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $199,901

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

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 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.