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Chicken N Pickle Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$87kHealth$58kEducation$15kHousing & Shelter$7kRecreation & Sports$6kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$2kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k61 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$92k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLIDAY ADOPTION PROGRAM$11,595
Individual grant recipient$3,779
GWENDOLYNS GIFTS$3,100
GREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION$3,000
OPERATION BBQ RELIEF$3,000
CAROUSEL PEDIATRIC CARE$2,900
COOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,000
BIG LOVE CANCER CENTER$1,700
HEROES FOR CHILDREN$1,300
RYAN'S HOUSE$1,200
WICHITA'S LITTLEST HEROES$1,100
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$1,000
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SENIOR SERVICES OF WICHITA: $150 → 16%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $3k → 8%SAN ANTONIO THREADS: $150 → 16%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $1k → 21%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $500 → 16%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $500 → 5%EXCEPTIONAL HUMANS INC: $100 → 8%RYAN'S HOUSE: $1k → 11%WICHITA'S LITTLEST HEROES: $2k → 16%WICHITA'S LITTLEST HEROES: $2k → 16%EPEC INC: $100 → 15%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $500 → 16%WICHITA'S LITTLEST HEROES: $2k → 16%SKYLINE URBAN MINISTRY FUND: $150 → 16%WICHITA'S LITTLEST HEROES: $1k → 16%CHILDSAFE: $150 → 16%HEART OF KC: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
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IA
MO
AZ
KS
TN
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OK
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$135k · 28 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
162

Total granted

$135k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+8%

Still filing today

21%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • KC
    Kansas City Hospice Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +72%
  • WL
    WICHITAS LITTLEST HEROES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +9%
  • HF
    HEROES FOR CHILDREN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • PI
    P4X INC DBA PER4MAX MEDICAL
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • VA
    VOGEL ALCOVE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • HO
    HEART OF KC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Wichita Children's Home

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…

Human Services
4
Kansas City Hospice Inc

To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.

Human Services
5
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
6
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
7
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
8
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
9
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…

Health
10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc

The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of kansas city is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
11
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
12
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Inc of Wichita; the most unlike its peers is What if We Could. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 237 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
36/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS: $46,303 · OtherVARIOUSHOLIDAY ADOPTION PROGRAM: $22,273 · OtherHOLIDAY ADOPTION PROGRAMADOPT A FAMILY: $7,930 · OtherP4X INC DBA PER4MAX MEDICAL: $7,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,613 · Other+165 more: $105,564 · Other+165 moreKansas City Hospice Foundation: $9,324 · HealthKansas City…NOAH'S BANDAGE PROJECT: $5,000 · HealthNOAH'S BAND…GWENDOLYN'S GIFTS: $3,100 · HealthGWENDOLYN'S…THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $3,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDAT…Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $1,700 · HealthPhoenix Chi…INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc: $1,403 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Health+5 more: $2,000 · Health+5 moreWICHITAS LITTLEST HEROES: $6,978 · Human ServicesWICHITAS L…VOGEL ALCOVE: $5,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCO…HEART OF KC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHEART OF K…OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $3,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION …RYAN HOUSE: $1,200 · Human ServicesGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Human Services+5 more: $1,850 · Human Services+5 moreGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsKansas City University: $1,000 · EducationSimpson College: $225 · EducationOKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $200 · AnimalsWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $200 · EnvironmentBOTANICA INC: $150 · Environment
Other$195,883Health$26,527Human Services$24,028Recreation & Sports$5,500Education$1,225Animals$450Environment$350

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKansas City Hospice Foundation: $9,324 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWICHITAS LITTLEST HEROES: $6,978 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF KC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNOAH'S BANDAGE PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHEROES FOR CHILDREN: $3,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc: $1,403 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Johnson County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimpson College: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUR HARVEST HOUSE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING GROVE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS DIAPER BANK: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED METHODIST OPEN DOOR: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOTANICA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT MINISTRY INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Kansas City Hospice Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WICHITAS LITTLEST HEROES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF KC ↗
  • Who funds NOAH'S BANDAGE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HEROES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds GWENDOLYN'S GIFTS ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Kansas City University ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION 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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO30× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Arvest Foundation · Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Sarkeys 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 Chicken N Pickle Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicken N Pickle Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%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
    4get no government money at all
    30report 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

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    How do I get to Chicken N Pickle Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Chicken N Pickle Foundation Inc 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 237 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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