· Private foundation
Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $35,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PBS | $25,000 |
| TOURISM CARES | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| KCUR | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| MISERICORDIA | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY | $15,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $15,000 |
| SAFEHOME | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -44% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +105%
- PTPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +138%
- SISAFEHOME INC8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- WIWONDERSCOPE INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -44%
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.
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
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.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
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.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds TOURISM CARES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Abe & Anna Bograd Memorial Trust 10030800 · V & H Charitable Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Seaboard Foundation · Truman Heartland Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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