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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $149,574, the rows itemized in this filing. The $248,074 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $98,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
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 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
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,…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City; 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 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. 8 of the 9 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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 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

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 Chiefs Ambassadors Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chiefs Ambassadors Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–24
    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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 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 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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