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Chiefs Ambassadors Charitable Foundation

The CHIEFS AMBASSADORS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ("the foundation") is a missouri nonprofit corporation organized to operate as a code section 501(c)(3) public charity.

$248k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Youth Development$343kPhilanthropy$64kRecreation & Sports$43kEnvironment$10kInternational$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $149,574 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $248,074 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
$36,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$497k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY$103,574
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KANSAS CITY$36,000
YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $58k → 15%POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $104k → 15%CAMP QUALITY GREATER KANSAS CITY: $33k → 15%CAMP QUALITY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $10k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KANSAS CITY: $36k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KANSAS CITY: $36k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF KANSAS CITY: $33k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF KANSAS CITY: $33k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF KANSAS CITY: $33k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF KANSAS CITY: $28k → 15%YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC: $10k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF KANSAS CITY: $25k → 15%OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $10k → 15%FOX4 LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City

The organization promotes the personal development of boys and girls ages 5-18, with special concern for the disadvantaged by providing services that build self-esteem, values and skills during critical periods of growth.

Youth Development
2
Camps for Kids

Camps For Kids' mission is to ensure that no Kansas City-area child is turned away from summer camp because of low income or physical, medical or developmental disability.

Recreation & Sports
3
Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc

Ksbbbs defines success by measuring positive youth outcomes (proven predictors of long-term success, such as school attendance and engagement), the number of youth served, and the duration of match relationships. bbbs is an evidence-based,…

4
Kansas Action for Children Inc

Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.

Human Services
5
Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health
6
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
7
Kansas City Urban Youth Academy Inc

To provide kansas city youth with the opportunity to develop into high character, productive members of society and learn the skills of baseball.

Recreation & Sports
8
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
9
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
10
Best Kids Inc

Best Kids, Inc is a nonprofit mentoring organization that empowers youth in foster care to build better futures, one child at a time.

Youth Development
11
Greater Kansas City Sports Foundation

Foster and support amateur sports competition

Recreation & Sports
12
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is The Peoples Heartland Foundation. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City — $223,500 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas CityCAMP QUALITY USA INC — $42,820 · OtherCAMP QUALITY USA INCGET GREEN RESOURCES INC — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $6,000 · OtherPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KC INC — $103,574 · Youth DevelopmentPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE O…Greater Kansas City Community Foundation — $57,695 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas …THE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION — $6,667 · PhilanthropyTHE PEOPLES HEA…YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $10,000 · Education
Other$282,320Youth Development$103,574Philanthropy$64,362Arts & Culture$10,000Education$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City — $223,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $57,695 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP QUALITY USA INC — $42,820 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION — $6,667 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Chiefs Ambassadors Charitable 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Chiefs Ambassadors Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chiefs Ambassadors Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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