· Private foundation
Carrie J Loose Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $660k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $100,000 |
| CORNERSTONES OF CARE | $100,000 |
| BIONEXUS - KC | $80,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $75,000 |
| ARMOUR OAKS SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY | $75,000 |
| ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC | $65,000 |
| GOODWILL OF WESTERN MO & EASTERN KS | $60,000 |
| FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION & RECOVERY | $55,000 |
| UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES dba EARLY | $50,000 |
| HOPE FAMILY CARE CLINIC | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| FRONT PORCH ALLIANCE KANSAS CITY INC | $30,000 |
| LITERACY KANSAS CITY | $30,000 |
| MOTHER'S REFUGE | $25,000 |
| CORE INFLUENCER INSTITUTE UNCORNERED | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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
- BKBIONEXUS KC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +34%
- COCORNERSTONES OF CARE9× · 2017–2025 · $710k · revenue +35%
- RBROSE BROOKS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $586k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INCone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +23%
- AOARMOUR OAKS SENIOR LIVINGone grant, 2019 · $75k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $50k
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
Nurture kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. we work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide…
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
Opportunities, inc. of jefferson county provides services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
The full employment council is a business-led, private, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to obtain public and private sector employment for the unemployed and underemployed residents of the greater kansas city area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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 BIONEXUS KC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF WESTERN MISSOURI & EASTERN KANSAS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Mothers Refuge ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NOURISHKC ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES FUND ↗
- Who funds FOOTPRINTS INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM KC ↗
- Who funds START AT ZERO INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR LIFE 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 · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Sherman Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals 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 Carrie J Loose Trust 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.