· Private foundation
Burgess 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART | $18,000 |
| FIX EM KC | $15,000 |
| THE PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,750 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $7,500 |
| KC COMMON GOOD | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND | $7,500 |
| KITTY CAT CONNECTION | $7,500 |
| ROSE BROOKS CENTER | $5,200 |
| MICHAEL KUEHL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| MOCSA | $5,000 |
| M'SHOOGY'S EMERGENCY ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART | $3,931 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY | $2,000 |
| ERICS CAMP FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- KCKITTY CAT CONNECTION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +16%
- FKFix'em KC2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +261%
- MOMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- LCLOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- KMKEMPER MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.
Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions
To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…
The kansas humane society is a community resource for pets and people, dedicated to enhancing the welfare of all companion animals.
To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.
To break the cycle of domestic violence and partner abuse for victims and their children by providing shelter, advocacy, counseling and prevention education in our community.
Colorado Kitty Coalition's (CKC) current purpose/mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home cats in need. Through a network of dedicated foster homes, we provide them with love, safety and a chance for a loving home. We commit to…
It is the mission of kvc to enrich and enhance the lives of children and their families by providing medical and behavioral healthcare, social services and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fix'em Kc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KITTY CAT CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Fix'em KC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KC COMMON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
- Who funds ERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
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 · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Hall Family Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Jagoda Family Foundation · Merriman Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Shumaker 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 Burgess Family 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.
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.