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Corporate Report 100 71 First Option Bank Gross Revenue: 2025: $44,141,000

Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.33%

Growth: 64.00% 2022: $26,915,000

Full-time employees: 119 One of the largest community banks on this year’s list operates from one of its smaller towns: Osawatomie’s First Option Bank holds $816 million in assets and $735 million in deposits under The Osawatomie Agency. Revenue grew 64 percent over the stretch as its eastern Kansas footprint—Miami County and beyond—kept gathering the deposits that powered the gain. 72 Universal Construction Growth: 63.92% Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.31% Gross Revenue: 2025: $57,034,494 2022: $34,793,374 Full-time employees: 30 The oldest construction lineage on this list traces to 1887, when Archie Smith founded a masonry outfit in Kansas City; Universal Construction Company took its present form in 1931 when Smith partnered with his son. Now in its fifth generation of family ownership—and woman-owned—the KCK general contractor and construction manager has completed work in 22 states. 73 Pro Metals Growth: 63.24% Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.08% Gross Revenue: 2025: $22,200,000 2022: $13,600,000 Full-time employees: 55 This commercial HVAC contractor and custom metal fabrication firm specializes in design-build preconstruction, custom duct work fabrication, mechanical insulation, and advanced BIM/CAD engineering. Its rapid growth is fueled by its certified MBE/DBE status across Kansas and Missouri, making it a highly competitive partner for major public and private infrastructure contracts. 74 Inspired Homes Growth: 62.62% Average Annual Growth Rate: 20.87% Gross Revenue: 2025: $72,778,986 2022: $44,753,396 Full-time employees: DD Attainability is the pitch at Inspired Homes, the Kansas City builder-developer founded by local family businesses whose leader ship has delivered more than 5,000 homes across various U.S. markets. Building on both sides of the state line—Lee’s Summit to Platte City, Olathe to Lenexa—the firm leans on technology and standardized systems to keep the buying process seamless and prices within reach. 75 Ashlar Homes Growth: 62.24% Average Annual Growth Rate: 20.75% Gross Revenue: 2025: $51,310,814 2022: $31,625,700 Full-time employees: 25 While luxury builders chase the top of the market, Ashlar Homes has staked out the part most buyers can actually afford. The Blue Springs firm founded by Shawn Woods—building metro communities for more than 14 years — keeps development, construction and sales under one roof to hold starting prices roughly between $275,000 and $359,000, and ranks itself among the metro’s top builders by permit volume. 76 First Federal S&L Bank Growth: 59.93% Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.98% Gross Revenue: 2025: $9,260,000 2022: $5,790,000 Full-time employees: 6 The thrift model isn’t dead — in Olathe, it’s outperforming. First Federal Savings and Loan, a $109 million-asset institution under First Fed of Olathe Bancorp, saw its revenues surge while posting a remarkable 3.40 percent return on assets, the highest of any bank on this year’s list. This enterprise is small, focused and ferociously profitable. 77 Bank of Prairie Village Growth: 59.45% Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.52% Gross Revenue: 2025: $8,880,000 2022: $5,569,000 Full-time employees: 10 Its holding company is Blue Lion Bancshares, and the ambition fits the name. Bank of Prairie Village—$150 million in assets serving its namesake Johnson County community—grew revenue 59 percent over the stretch while racking up a 1.58 percent return on assets, building a neighborhood-banking franchise in one of the metro’s most established first-ring suburbs. 78 Bank of Labor Growth: 59.40% Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.80% Gross Revenue: 2025: $54,802,000 2022: $34,381,000 Full-time employees: 132 A century after the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers chartered Brotherhood State Bank in 1924, its successor is thriv ing in a niche nearly every peer abandoned: Bank of Labor is among the last surviving labor banks in America. It serves the North American labor movement—unions, their affiliates and working families—from its home market to a Washington, D.C., office. 79 Baldwin State Bank Growth: 58.23% Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.41% Gross Revenue: 2025: $5,269,000 2022: $3,330,000 Full-time employees: 16 Another Baldwin City honoree proves the town’s banking depth. Baldwin State Bank—$106 million in assets, independent of any holding company—grew revenue 58 percent over the stretch to $5.3 million, serving Douglas County the way small-town banks have for generations: deposit-funded, relationship-driven and steady enough to ride a rate cycle to a list like this one. 80 Hoefer Welker Architects Growth: 57.72% Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.24% Gross Revenue: 2025: $64,133,792 2022: $40,662,170 Full-time employees: 189 After three essentially flat years, Hoefer Welker’s 2025 broke the pattern. 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