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15 and the Mahomies Foundation

15 and the mahomies is dedicated to improving the lives of children.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Youth Development$2.3MEducation$789kHealth$394kFood & Nutrition$370kPublic Benefit$288kPhilanthropy$115kHuman Services$110kRecreation & Sports$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $158k
  • $250k+1 grant · $650k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$298k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$650,000
CITY YEAR$57,500
LEAD TO READ KC$50,500
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$50,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC$30,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC$15,305
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI$15,000
PETE'S GARDEN INC$15,000
KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT$15,000
YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORP$15,000
FOX LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN$15,000
SHELTER KC$15,000
HIGH ASPIRATIONS INC$15,000
TURN THE PAGE KC$15,000
KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $566k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Make-A-Wish Missouri & Kansas: $15k → 17%Uncover KC: $10k → 8%ONE SIGHT: $15k → 6%MAKE A WISH MISSOURI & KANSAS: $15k → 11%LEAD TO READ KC: $100k → 17%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $10k → 16%MAKE A WISH MISSOURI & KANSAS: $15k → 11%LEAD TO READ KC: $21k → 17%MAKE A WISH MISSOURI & KANSAS: $15k → 11%Lead to Read KC: $20k → 17%LEAD TO READ KC: $15k → 17%Youth Volunteer Corps: $10k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORP: $45k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORP: $15k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORP: $15k → 15%United Inner City Services: $15k → 15%THE HOPE CENTER KC: $15k → 15%THE HOPE CENTER KC: $15k → 15%EARLY START: $30k → 15%EARLY START: $25k → 15%UICS: $15k → 15%PETE'S GARDEN INC: $30k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INC: $15k → 15%PETE'S GARDEN: $15k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INC: $15k → 15%PETE'S GARDEN INC: $15k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INC: $15k → 15%Kansas Childrens Service League: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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IL
MA
OH
MO
AZ
KS
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 24 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
35

Total granted

$3.1M
$703k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+36%

Still filing today

96%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $758k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CITY YEAR INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +4%
  • LT
    LEAD TO READ INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $207k · revenue +139%
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    4× · 2020–2024 · $153k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • Feeding America
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +17%
  • TS
    The Shack Harris and Doug Williams Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • KC
    Kansas City Kansas School Foundation of Excellencegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +313%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
2
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
3
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
4
Kansas Action for Children Inc

Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.

Human Services
5
Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health
6
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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7
Camps for Kids

Camps For Kids' mission is to ensure that no Kansas City-area child is turned away from summer camp because of low income or physical, medical or developmental disability.

Recreation & Sports
8
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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9
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment
10
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
11
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
12
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Children's Service League Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHospital Systems and Founda…Animal Rescue and WelfareSchool District Education F…Family Support & Crisis Ser…K-12 Education InnovationCrisis Shelter & Support Se…Independent Elementary Scho…Food Assistance & Hunger Re…Lubbock Community Developme…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr16%29%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr24%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr16%10%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr16%47%35–55yr24%17%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,425

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
44/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY YEAR INC — $1,332,500 · OtherCITY YEAR INCLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC — $75,010 · Other+27 more — $567,955 · Other+27 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $650,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AME…BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $377,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANS…+2 more — $20,030 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD TO READ INC — $206,500 · Human ServicesLEAD TO READ IN…UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $85,015 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CI…Youth Volunteer Corps — $85,015 · Human ServicesYouth Volunteer…PETES GARDEN — $60,015 · Human ServicesPETES GARDENMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS — $60,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOU…HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED — $45,000 · Human ServicesHIGH ASPIRATION…THE HOPE CENTER INC — $30,000 · Human Services+4 more — $45,030 · Human Services+4 moreFeeding America — $250,000 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $30,030 · Food & NutritionSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC — $10,015 · Food & NutritionFEED NORTHLAND KIDS INC — $10,015 · Food & NutritionKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $92,765 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $82,515 · EducationTURN THE PAGE KC INC — $60,000 · EducationEMMANUEL FAMILY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER & EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR CHILDR — $15,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $17,530 · EducationThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $153,227 · HealthTeam Luke Hope for Minds — $30,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $15,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · HealthPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $15,000 · HealthTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC — $8,100 · HealthVARIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY TENT 8 — $75,000 · PhilanthropyThe Shack Harris and Doug Williams Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyKANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,975,465Youth Development$1,047,530Human Services$616,575Food & Nutrition$300,060Education$292,810Health$236,327Philanthropy$140,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITY YEAR INC — $1,332,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $650,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $377,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFeeding America — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC — $206,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $153,227 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $92,765 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $85,015 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetYouth Volunteer Corps — $85,015 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $82,515 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC — $75,010 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetVARIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY TENT 8 — $75,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc — $62,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPETES GARDEN — $60,015 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS — $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTURN THE PAGE KC INC — $60,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC — $52,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Shack Harris and Doug Williams Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $45,320 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED — $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $30,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKansas City Kansas School Foundation of Excellence — $30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTeam Luke Hope for Minds — $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City — $25,015 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK — $15,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRESTORATION HOUSE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetEMMANUEL FAMILY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER & EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR CHILDR — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER KC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOneSight — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL CENTRO INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUSA FOOTBALL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC — $10,015 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTORING ALLIANCE — $10,015 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $10,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUncover KC — $10,015 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $10,015 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE — $10,015 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greater…Greater Kansas City C…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Kansas City Royal…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…Jackson County Commun…The Sherman Family Fo…R a Long Foundation 6…The Shumaker Family F…Hallmark Corporate Fo…Hunt Family Foundation
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO49× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Sherman Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Shumaker Family Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Hunt Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 15 and the Mahomies Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to 15 and the Mahomies Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 15 and the Mahomies Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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