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Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City
Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas Citys mission is to assist low-income families in Jackson, Clay and Platte Counties in their efforts to become self-sufficient by providing programs and services
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $938,048 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,954,736 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,016,688 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $197k
- $250k+2 grants · $631k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| J and S Construction | $321,019 |
| JC Mechanical | $310,454 |
| Able Insulation | $140,921 |
| FCR Home Improvement LLC | $56,238 |
| Peek Roofing & Construction LLC | $40,044 |
| Inception Plumbing LLC | $21,784 |
| AKG CO LLC - Andy's Pipe Dream LLC | $13,046 |
| Energy Savers Construction | $10,617 |
| Fields Electric | $9,400 |
| PAX Janitorial LLC | $7,775 |
| GPK Services LLC Bio-One KC | $6,750 |
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 (FY17–19, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
- GTGIVING THE BASICS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $265k · revenue +190%
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND3× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +39%- CICOLDWATER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue +322%
Funded once
- BCBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITYone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -16%
- UAUNIVERSITY ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +57%
- BGBOYS GROW CORPone grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue +1%
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises
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…
Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.
To provide people in the Kansas City area affected by poverty with services and opportunities that encourage self-confidence, meet the needs of today, and provide the tools for future self-sufficiency.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Kansas city community gardens is dedicated to improving the quality of life of low-income households and other members of the community by helping them grow their own nutritious fruits and vegatables. the member gardners develop…
A non-profit agency authorized to sponsor and administer the child & adult care food program by the kansas department of education serving counties in kansas.
End hunger together.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Club of Greater Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Hillside Opening Possibilities for Everyone 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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 45 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 GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds COLDWATER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOYS GROW CORP ↗
- Who funds Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN PLATTE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE OPENING POSSIBILITIES FOR EVERYONE INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF EXCELSIOR SPRINGS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BETA LAMBDA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURE KC ↗
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 · Giving the Basics Inc · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Guy I Bromley Residuary Trust · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland 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 Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City 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.
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.