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Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City

COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY (caagkc) provides low-income residents of clay, jackson, and platte counties in missouri comprehensive supportive services that help them become self-sufficient.

$3.0M
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$321k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Housing & Shelter$2.4MFood & Nutrition$601kEducation$101kCivil Rights$65kYouth Development$63kRecreation & Sports$32kEnvironment$15kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $938,048, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,954,736 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,016,688 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $197k
  • $250k+2 grants · $631k
$21,784
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Good Samaritan Center: $7k → 8%Good Samaritan Center: $6k → 8%YMCA of Grater Kansas City: $64k → 15%YMCA of Grater Kansas City: $32k → 15%SPEAC Food Pantry: $8k → 15%SPEACParkville Prespyterian Baptist Church: $6k → 15%SPEACParkville Prespyterian Baptist Church: $6k → 15%CSL Community Services League: $8k → 15%Grandview Assistance Program: $7k → 15%Community Services League: $8k → 15%Grandview Assistance Program: $5k → 15%Community Services League: $6k → 15%Grandview Assistance Program: $5k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 25 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
13

Total granted

$3.0M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+1%

Still filing today

52%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCivil RightsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GT
    GIVING THE BASICS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $265k · revenue +190%
  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +39%
  • CI
    COLDWATER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue +467%

Funded once

  • BC
    BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -16%
  • UA
    UNIVERSITY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +57%
  • BG
    BOYS GROW CORP
    one grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its 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
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc

To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
4
Child Care Links Association

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.

Human Services
5
Kansas City Community Gardens Inc

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…

Environment
6
Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services
7
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
8
Cross-Lines Community Outreach Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
11
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
12
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Club of Greater Kansas City; the most unlike its peers is Southern Platte Emergency Assistance Center. 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

16 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. 16 of the 45 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

J and S Construction: $961,602 · OtherJ and S ConstructionJC Mechanical: $706,969 · OtherJC MechanicalAble Insulation: $524,648 · OtherAble InsulationGIVING THE BASICS INC: $264,565 · OtherGIVING THE BASICS INC+26 more: $408,966 · Other+26 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $95,816 · Human ServicesCommunity Services League of Jackson County: $21,951 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN PLATTE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20,157 · Human ServicesGRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $17,795 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF EXCELSIOR SPRINGS ASSOCIATION: $13,898 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $64,930 · Civil RightsUNIVERSITY ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationBETA LAMBDA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $12,022 · EducationBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS GROW CORP: $24,233 · Youth DevelopmentCOLDWATER INC: $42,182 · Public Safety & DisasterHILLSIDE OPENING POSSIBILITIES FOR EVERYONE INC: $18,631 · Food & NutritionHOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN: $14,387 · Food & NutritionNURTURE KC: $11,358 · Health
Other$2,866,750Human Services$169,617Civil Rights$64,930Education$49,522Youth Development$49,233Public Safety & Disaster$42,182Food & Nutrition$33,018Health$11,358

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $264,565 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $95,816 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $64,930 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLDWATER INC: $42,182 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS GROW CORP: $24,233 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCommunity Services League of Jackson County: $21,951 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSIDE OPENING POSSIBILITIES FOR EVERYONE INC: $18,631 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetGRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $17,795 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN: $14,387 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBETA LAMBDA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $12,022 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURE KC: $11,358 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 C…Giving the Basics IncUnited Way of Greater…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Health Forward Founda…Jackson County Commun…Commerce Bancshares F…Guy I Bromley Residua…R a Long Foundation 6…William T Kemper Foun…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO23.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.

    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 45 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4.4M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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