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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
$3.0M
Granted FY2021
11
Grants
2
Communities
$321k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
rentalfood pantry
2020
food pantry
2021
cleaningroofing
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $197k
- $250k+2 grants · $631k
$21,784
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 14 repeat orgs$305k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +80% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
18
Total granted
$2.6M
$149k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+100%
+80%
Still filing today
36%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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 Basics3× · 2018–2020 · $200k · revenue +190%
- PCPrice Chopper3× · 2018–2020 · $31k · revenue +322%
- CSCommunity Services League2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- YOYMCA of Grater Kansas Cityone grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue -14%
- AAdsposureone grant, 2020 · $15k
- EEETCKCone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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
Kc Common Good Inc
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Employment
2
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc
To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food from local, regional and national food companies
Food & Nutrition
3
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
The greater kansas city community foundation helps donors create their charitable legacies, so they can make the world a better place.
Philanthropy
4
Cross-Lines Community Outreach Inc
Cross-Lines was established "a place of hope" for those struggling with the hardships of poverty. We are a safety net for our community. Cross-Lines' primary areas of focus are hunger and housing.
Human Services
5
The Food Bank for Central
Hunger relief network sharing millions of pounds of nutritious food with thousands of missourians.
Food & Nutrition
6
Johnson County Christmas Bureau
Provide warmth and support during the winter holiday season to low-income johnson county, kansas household.
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7
Care Beyond the Boulevard Inc
Care Beyond the Boulevard (CBB) provides quality medical care, case management, and respite services to the homeless, uninsured, and vulnerable people of Greater Kansas City.
Health
8
Chamber of Commerce of Greater
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
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9
North Central Kansas Housing
Community Improvement
10
Community Care Network of Kansas Inc
Community care network of kansas, inc. (community care's) is the primary care association (pca) for the state of kansas. community care strengthens, supports and represents our members. community care's core functions are: advocacy,…
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11
Community Builders of Kansas City
To change the landscape by igniting and fueling equity, access, opportunity, and advocacy.
Housing & Shelter
12
Community Center of Shawnee Inc
The organizations mission is to provide food, emergency assistance and other services to senior citizens and indigent families in Johnson County Kansas as well as the Kansas City metropolitian area.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Samaritan Center of Excelsior 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.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,775,060Human Services$64,450Public Safety & Disaster$30,908Food & Nutrition$19,661Education$11,794Health$5,679
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 ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Grater Kansas City ↗
- Who funds Price Chopper ↗
- Who funds Community Services League ↗
- Who funds Grandview Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds Hopewrx ↗
- Who funds Hope Network of Raytown ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Center ↗
- Who funds Beta Lambda Educational Institute ↗
- Who funds Operation Breakthrough ↗
- Who funds Mother and Child Health Coalition ↗
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.
Giving the Basics IncKS20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Giving the Basics Inc · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Care Foundation of Greater Kc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's · Truman Heartland Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Hopewrx.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 264706755 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Hopewrx, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City?
Find your warmest path to Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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