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Clay Blair Foundation
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 $10k13 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $414k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JAMES ACADEMY | $304,898 |
| OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BLUE VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| JCCC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DONNELLY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - EASTSIDE CORPS | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $25,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $25,000 |
| EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALPHAPOINTE | $25,000 |
| MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $21,500 |
| PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UMKC LAW FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KU ENDOWMENT | $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 (FY18–25, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Clay Blair Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 12 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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
- OPOLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $318k · revenue +58%
- MNMIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $272k · revenue +51%
- TLTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY5× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- ARARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLANDone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -16%
- TGTHE GREATER KANSAS CITY COMM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $75k
- KCKANSAS CITY KANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $36k
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.
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…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…
Umkc foundation's sole purpose is to benefit the university of missouri - kansas city (umkc) by supporting (through funds raised, held and administered by the foundation) academic programs and educational opportunities that will enhance…
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
To assist the state of kansas in helping to improve the health of all kansans, particularly those unserved or underserved.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jazz in the Woods Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 101 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 OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND ↗
- Who funds THE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Lenexa Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE MISSION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds JOY MEADOWS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
- Who funds INCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds ALPHAPOINTE ↗
- Who funds EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds THE PATIENT REVOLUTION 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 · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Servant Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Umb Financial Corporation Charitable
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 Clay Blair 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.
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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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