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Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part One
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part One’s FY2025 grant dollars went to World Giving Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part One named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $327k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS TLC | $110,000 |
| KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| WORLD GIVING FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LEAWOOD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MADAM PRESIDENT CAMP INC | $16,667 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| YOUTH CHORUS OF KC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part One’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY6× · 2019–2025 · $583k · revenue +13%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CAMPUS OF KANSAS CITY INC2× · 2019–2022 · $110k · revenue +1%
- KCKansas City Kansas School Foundation of Excellence2× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +313% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- KCKANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +120% · 34% of their budget
- TDTHREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES THE EDEN VILLAGEone grant, 2023 · $195k
- TVTHE VILLAGE INITIATIVEone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To secure and provide funds and resources to enhance student learning in the kansas city public schools.
The mission of the kauffman school is to prepare students to excel academically, graduate from college and apply their unique talents in the world to create economically independent and personally fulfilling lives.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
The mission of the kansas state university foundation is to secure and prudently manage private gifts in support of kansas state university and foster a culture that unites philanthropic desires with university priorities.
Engaging our communities to support and fund extraordinary educational experiences.
Support of university of missouri - kansas city law school
The chamber of commerce of greater kansas city foundation's mission is to invest in solutions that empower current and future generations in the kansas city community. the foundation is organized and operated exclusively for exempt…
The foundation supports the mission of the junior college district of metropolitan kansas city, missouri dba the metropolitan community college (mcc) of preparing students, serving communities, and creating opportunities by carrying out…
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
Umkc foundation's sole purpose is to benefit the university of missouri - kansas city (umkc) by supporting (through funds raised, held and administered by the foundation) academic programs and educational opportunities that will enhance…
Strengthening agriculture and the lives of kansans through leadership, education and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johnson County Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds WORLD GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Johnson County Bar Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CAMPUS OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Kansas School Foundation of Excellence ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEAWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADAM PRESIDENT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF GRACE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORIZON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds OLATHE HEALTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Clay Blair Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · V & H Charitable Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
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 Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part One 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.
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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