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Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring emerging technologies from concept to reality.the kc region is a global leader at the nexus of human and…

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.1MScience & Tech$750kCommunity Improvement$50kEducation$49k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $99,990, the rows itemized in this filing. The $103,710 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,720 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$49,995
Median grant
1
States reached
$716k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL$49,995
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY$49,995
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $100k → 15%COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC: $200k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 20%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $80k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $100k → 15%COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE CTY: $193k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY (KSU): $100k → 20%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $50k → 15%KU MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $150k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $50k → 15%KU MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $93k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 20%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $40k → 15%KU MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY: $47k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 16%MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SE: $50k → 15%CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS: $25k → 15%KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY: $49k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $197k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $149k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $100k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $50k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $50k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $50k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Bionexus Kc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bionexus Kclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 7 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$2.7M
$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+96%

Still filing today

71%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthScience & TechEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    6× · 2017–2024 · $596k · revenue +67%
  • UO
    University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
    4× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +44%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $293k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • MR
    MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +96%
  • KC
    Kansas City Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $49k · revenue +148%
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 Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
2
Ku Center for Technology Commercialization Inc

Kuctc is organized to facilitate and support the research and technology transfer operations of the university of kansas and its affiliated tax-exempt research corporations or other tax exempt organizations qualified under section…

Education
3
University Health Physicians

University health physicians provides quality and compassionate healthcare in an environment of academic excellence.

Health
4
Cleveland University - Kansas City

Cleveland University-Kansas City educates and develops leaders in health promotion.

Health
5
Citizens Medical Center Inc

Enhancing the lives of those we serve.

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6
Kansas City Care Clinic

The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.

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7
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
8
Kansas Health Science University Inc

Kansas Health Science University's mission is to provide access to osteopathic medical and other health sciences education and training through emphasizing opportunity, academic excellence, and community engagement.

Education
9
Heart Surgeons of Kansas City Inc

Heart Surgeons of Kansas City, Inc. was formed for the purpose of providing heart and vascular surgery to patients and related medical services through its employed surgeons.

Health
10
Craig Hospital

Craig Hospital is a 93-bed, long-term acute care and rehabilitation hospital that provides care exclusively for patients with spinal cord and brain injury. The Hospital provides a comprehensive system of inpatient and outpatient medical…

Health
11
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
12
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Properties Inc

Title holding company furnishing research facilities to the university of kansas medical center research institute.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute; the most unlike its peers is Community Health Council of Wyandotte County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Children's Mercy Hospital: $595,999 · HealthThe Children's Mercy HospitalCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC: $392,862 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INCUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $292,710 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTESt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City: $169,990 · HealthSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas CityCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $646,058 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $349,964 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER+1 more: $25,000 · OtherUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $300,000 · Science & TechUniversity …MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementKansas City University: $48,888 · Education
Health$1,451,561Other$1,121,022Science & Tech$300,000Community Improvement$50,000Education$48,888

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $595,999 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC: $392,862 over 2y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $292,710 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City: $169,990 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKansas City University: $48,888 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

Health Forward Founda…The Sunderland Founda…
Health Forward FoundationMO13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation

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 Bionexus Kc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bionexus Kc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bionexus Kc?

    Find your warmest path to Bionexus Kc 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 11 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 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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