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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
Itemized grants FY2021
11
Organizations funded FY2021
64%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$938k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$21,784
Largest grant, FY2021
$321,019
Organizations funded a year
8 to 27
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 64% of the organizations Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202111$938k64%
FY20208$731k25%
FY201919$966k47%
FY201821$273k0%
FY201727$379kn/a
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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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
J and S Construction$961,6023n/a
JC Mechanical$706,9693n/a
Able Insulation$524,6483n/a
Giving the Basics Inc$264,56543%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City$95,81620%
Children's Defense Fund$64,93030%
FCR Home Improvement LLC$56,2381n/a
Energy Savers Construction$46,7423n/a
Coldwater Inc$42,18246%
Peek Roofing & Construction LLC$40,0441n/a
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All grantees of Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
J and S Construction$961,6023n/a
JC Mechanical$706,9693n/a
Able Insulation$524,6483n/a
Giving the Basics Inc$264,56543%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City$95,81620%
Children's Defense Fund$64,93030%
FCR Home Improvement LLC$56,2381n/a
Energy Savers Construction$46,7423n/a
Coldwater Inc$42,18246%
Peek Roofing & Construction LLC$40,0441n/a
Total Man CDC$25,7543n/a
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City$25,00010%
University Academy$25,00010%
Boys Grow Corp$24,23313%
Community Services League of Jackson County$21,95130%
Kingsway Ministries Inc$21,8223n/a
Inception Plumbing LLC$21,7841n/a
Southern Platte Emergency Assistance Center$20,1573n/a
Covenant Presbyterian Church$19,1113n/a
Hillside Opening Possibilities for Everyone Inc$18,63135%
Grandview Assistance Program$17,79532%
Adsposure$15,2001n/a
True Faith Outreach Ministries$14,4462n/a
Hope Network of Raytown$14,38723%
Good Samaritan Center of Excelsior Springs Association$13,8982n/a
United States Catholic Conference$13,8432n/a
Centennial United Methodist Church$13,2062n/a
AKG CO LLC - Andy's Pipe Dream LLC$13,0461n/a
Beta Lambda Educational Foundation$12,50027%
Englewood Baptist Church$12,4152n/a
Operation Breakthrough Inc$12,02220%
Blue Hills Community Church of hte Nazarine$11,7612n/a
Nurture Kc$11,35820%
Eetckc$10,4751n/a
Fields Electric$9,4001n/a
PAX Janitorial LLC$7,7751n/a
Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church$7,0551n/a
GPK Services LLC Bio-One KC$6,7501n/a
Dandd LLC$6,6431n/a
St James-Paseo United Methodist Church Inc$6,6411n/a
Memorial Church International$6,4031n/a
Mary K Soetaert$5,8501n/a
Morning Star Baptist Church$5,8301n/a
Tomhan LLC$5,6401n/a
HGC Community Development Corporation Inc$5,0921n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City supplied at peak.

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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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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.

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About Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City

How much does Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City give?
Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City reported 11 itemized grants totaling $938,048, out of $2,954,736 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (73%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Education (3%).
Who are Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: J and S Construction ($962k), JC Mechanical ($707k), Able Insulation ($525k).
Does Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Giving the Basics Inc, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc.
Where is Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City based?
Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City is based in MO.

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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