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Bebe & Crosby Kemper Foundation 10016600 at a glance

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Bebe & Crosby Kemper Foundation 10016600

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$705k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.3MCrime & Legal$260kCommunity Improvement$200kHuman Services$155kHealth$58kEducation$55kFood & Nutrition$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY$500,000
PROJECT ANGEL HEART$150,000
KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$55,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 5%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HEALING HOUSE: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 11 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
41

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+49%

Still filing today

82%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KM
    KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +7%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +21%
  • BM
    BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
    2× · 2021–2022 · $229k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • AM
    ALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -30%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +19%
  • TS
    THE STUDIOS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -57%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
4
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.

Arts & Culture
5
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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6
Kansas City Area Development Council

The kansas city area development council is a private, non-profit organization charged with representing the economic interests of the entire two-state, 18-county region of greater kansas city.(continued on schedule o)our mission is to:*…

Community Improvement
7
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
8
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
10
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
11
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
12
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Ballet Association; the most unlike its peers is Allegro Choirs of Kansas City Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
31/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION: $1,118,218 · Arts & CultureKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATIONKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $1,100,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONYBOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $228,500 · Arts & CultureBOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $225,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY+16 more: $480,500 · Arts & Culture+16 moreIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual gra…MEALS ON WHEELS: $50,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEEL…The Cedars Camps Inc: $50,000 · OtherThe Cedars Cam…CENTRAL CITY OPERA: $50,000 · OtherCENTRAL CITY O…SALVATION ARMY: $50,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYARTSKC: $47,000 · OtherARTSKCNELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $40,000 · OtherNELSON-ATKINS …POWELL GARDENS INC: $30,000 · OtherPOWELL GARDENS…CHILDREN'S MERCY: $27,743 · OtherHARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE FOR: $25,000 · OtherCHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · OtherAmethyst Place Inc: $20,000 · Other+11 more: $83,500 · Other+11 moreREACHING OUT FROM WITHIN INC: $240,000 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $20,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $200,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · Human ServicesHEALING HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMS: $15,000 · Human ServicesUMKC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationCape Cod Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$3,152,218Other$548,243Crime & Legal$260,000Community Improvement$200,000Human Services$90,000Education$60,000Food & Nutrition$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION: $1,118,218 over 4y, 14% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $1,100,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetREACHING OUT FROM WITHIN INC: $240,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetBOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $228,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $225,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $200,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE STUDIOS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetThe Cedars Camps Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHEALING HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALLEGRO CHOIRS OF KANSAS CITY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPAY & NEUTER KANSAS CITY D/B/A PET RESOURCE CENTER OF KANSAS CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLucky Bikes: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH AMBASSADORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAIDS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJourney to New Life INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGYEAR FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Enid and Crosby Kempe…Greater Kansas City C…The Francis Family Fo…R C Kemper Charitable…William T Kemper Char…Jewish Community Foun…Oppenstein Brothers F…Bluescope Foundation …R C Kemper Jr Charita…Copaken Family Founda…J B Reynolds Foundati…G Kenneth and Ann Bau…
Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904MO45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904 · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · R C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800 · William T Kemper Charitable Trust 10015200 · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America · R C Kemper Jr Charitable Trust 10023600 · Copaken Family Foundation · J B Reynolds Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bebe & Crosby Kemper Foundation 10016600 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bebe & Crosby Kemper Foundation 10016600. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Chatham Historical Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Bebe & Crosby Kemper Foundation 10016600 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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