· Private foundation
Clay Blair Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $25,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $25,000 |
| ALPHAPOINTE | $25,000 |
| MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $21,500 |
| UMKC LAW FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Clay Blair Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS 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 City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHAPOINTE ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds THE PATIENT REVOLUTION 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clay Blair Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clay Blair Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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