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Castetter Johnson 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAYSIDE WAIFS | $50,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY | $50,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTH KANSAS CITY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| CRISTO REY | $25,000 |
| KC METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| KANBE'S MARKETS | $10,000 |
| BO HUHMAN HEART FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE FARMER'S HOUSE | $10,000 |
| EASTER SEALS MIDWEST | $10,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LEVEL UP KIDS | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% 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 +15% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 20 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $101k · revenue +26%
- WWWAYSIDE WAIFS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $95k · revenue +15%
- CRCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- LWLEADING WITH LOVE GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- NINEWHOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -4%
- STSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -17%
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.
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Children's Mercy is a leading independent children's health organization dedicated to holistic care, translational research, breakthrough innovation, and educating the next generation of caregivers. Together, we transform the health,…
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises
Strengthening agriculture and the lives of kansans through leadership, education and service.
Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The make-a-wish foundation of kansas creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy and the most unlike its peers is Small Changes Big Shifts Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 45 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 KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FARMER'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BO HUHMAN HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS GLOBAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Small Changes Big Shifts Co ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BASEBALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUATEMALA HUMANITARIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds THE GOLDEN SCOOP LLC ↗
- Who funds SOUL OF SANTA DO GOOD FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTER KIDS KC ↗
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 · The Sunderland Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Curry Family Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Turner Construction Company Foundation · The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation · Nichols Company Charitable Trust · Victor E Speas 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 Castetter Johnson 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.
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