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Corporate Report 100 81 Garney Gross Revenue: 2025: $2,296,853,671

Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.20%

Growth: 57.60% 2022: $1,457,410,480

Full-time employees: 2,770 Water is a growth business. Employee-owned Garney, the national leader in water and wastewater infrastructure, self-performs pipeline, treatment facility, pump station and storage tank construction from 19 offices nationwide. Population growth, aging systems and thirsty new industrial facilities—data centers among them—drove sustained demand that pushed revenues higher. 82 Conexon Growth: 56.10% Average Annual Growth Rate: 18.70% Gross Revenue: 2025: $271,310,623 2022: $173,803,260 Full-time employees: 833 After an unprecedented seven-year CR100 Top 10 run, Conexon settles into a new phase. The Kansas City builder and operator of rural fiber broadband networks now posts revenues that reflect a maturing giant, not a stalled one. Its Conexon Connect ISP subsidiary, launched in 2021, now serves rural communities in nine states, propelled by grants and subsidies targeting unserved and underserved locations. 83 State Bank of Missouri Growth: 55.92% Average Annual Growth Rate: 18.64% Gross Revenue: 2025: $7,562,000 2022: $4,850,000 Full-time employees: 24 Concordia’s State Bank of Missouri carries one of the more sweeping names in Missouri banking on one of its more compact balance sheets: $138 million in assets under CS Bancshares. Revenue grew 56 percent since 2022, yielding an impressive 1.21 percent return on assets as the bank leveraged the I-70 corridor’s agricultural and small-business economy. 84 Strongbox Wealth LLC Growth: 54.63% Average Annual Growth Rate: 18.21% Gross Revenue: 2025: $4,127,294 2022: $2,669,168 Full-time employees: 8 The wealth-management industry’s dirty secret is that assets walk out the door when clients die. StrongBox Wealth built its growth on reversing that: the Lee’s Summit RIA runs family meetings, next-generation education and coordinated tax and estate planning that retain assets across generational transitions—and pull in heirs’ own portfolios besides. The eight-person firm even grew revenue 6 percent in 2022, while both stock and bond markets fell. 85 Academy Bank Growth: 53.94% Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.98% Gross Revenue: 2025: $220,483,000 2022: $143,229,000 Full-time employees: 514 The metro-scale entry among this year’s bank honorees, Academy Bank operates $3.3 billion in assets and $2.8 billion in depos its from downtown Kansas City under the Dickinson Financial family of companies. Revenue grew 54 percent over the stretch to $220 million, with substantial fee income—$45.6 million—diversifying a franchise whose retail reach extends well beyond its home market. 86 Polsinelli, PC Growth: 51.93% Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.31% Gross Revenue: 2025: $1,210,048,058 2022: $796,429,000 Full-time employees: 1,986 Crossing the billion-dollar line is rare air for any professional-services firm; Polsinelli did it during this measurement window. The Kansas City-founded law firm grew from $796 million to $1.21 billion—52 percent—with nearly 2,000 employees nation wide and roughly 500 in its home market. A fixture in the mid-40s of Ingram’s 100 for years, the firm’s national footprint keeps compounding on a Kansas City foundation. 87 Wachter, Inc. Growth: 51.65% Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.22% Gross Revenue: 2025: $505,600,000 2022: $333,400,000 Full-time employees: 1,768 The digital economy still needs physical wiring, and Lenexa-based Wachter has been supplying it for generations. The electrical and technology-infrastructure contractor grew revenue from $333 million to $506 million over the period—52 percent— with nearly 1,800 employees deployed nationally and about 170 in the metro. A steady presence in the 60s of Ingram’s 100 list, Wachter has climbed that ranking every year since 2019. 88 McCownGordon Construction Growth: 51.29% Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.10% Gross Revenue: 2025: $1,016,335,638 2022: $671,771,488 Full-time employees: 503 After breaking into the stratosphere as one of the region’s newest members of the billion-dollar club, what’s next for this full service Kansas City general contracting firm? A continued stronghold on new projects in hits home base, and successful expan sions into markets like Texas and across Kansas, have CEO Ramin Cherafat’s team on a roll. 89 Garcia Architecture Growth: 51.12% Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.04% Gross Revenue: 2025: $14,923,000 2022: $9,874,655 Full-time employees: 32 This full-service design and urban planning practice in Kansas City was founded in 1986 as Rafael Architects, and specializes in urban redevelopment, master campus planning, and commercial space design. The company’s fast growth stems from its long-standing dual MBE certifications in Kansas and Missouri combined with its 2018 expansion into Garcia Construction Management. 90 Structsure Projects Growth: 51.02% Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.01% Gross Revenue: 2025: $132,660,000 2022: $87,840,000 Full-time employees: 69 Half again bigger in four years: StructSure Projects grew from $88 million to $133 million over the measurement period, a 51 percent gain that earns the Kansas City firm led by Kevin Rogers a spot on this year’s list. The company appears on Ingram’s engineering-sourced rolls, with a story—and a client roster—that merits a fuller telling than the numbers alone provide. 7th Year 1st Year 1st Year

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