· Public charity
Community Capital Fund
Provide grants, technical assistance, and coaching to support under-resourced neighborhoods and businesses in the greater kansas city metropolitan are, helping to advance asset based community development and increase financial, human, and socal capital.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $425,816 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $917,618 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $491,802 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $361k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IVANHOE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL | $48,737 |
| MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION | $38,500 |
| EASTWOOD HILLS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $26,000 |
| RUSKIN HEIGHTS HOMES ASSOCAITION | $25,000 |
| HOLD EM UP 4 CARE | $25,000 |
| POETRY FOR PERSONAL POWER | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON WHEATLEY NEIGHBORHOOD | $17,900 |
| SCARRIT RENAISSANCE | $15,000 |
| HOLMES GARDEN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $14,500 |
| LYKINS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $13,950 |
| HEART OF THE CITY NEIGHBORHOOD | $13,500 |
| PENDLETON HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $13,500 |
| THE ARTS ASYLUM | $13,500 |
| HICKMAN MILLS UNITED NEIGHBORHOODINC | $12,500 |
| VIEW HIGH DRIVE NORTH NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $359k 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
- INIVANHOE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL2× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +33%
- BHBLUE HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION2× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +262%
- WCWestside Community Action Netw2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CSCRM Stores Ltdone grant, 2022 · $20k
- DEDelaware Event Space LLCone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SOSeven Oaks Neighborhood Associationone grant, 2017 · $19k
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.
The purpose of the Historic Kenwood Neighborhood Association is to promote a sense of community for the Kenwood neighborhood; forge working relationships with the City; foster civic participation; promote beautification and pride in the…
Maintain and beautify the NE Youngstown
To Maintain and Preserve Commun
Neighborhood Network Alliance (The NNA) connect, convene, and collaborate block-by-block with residents, nonprofits, and institutions to equip neighbors with the resources that will empower cooperative community management and…
Assist residents with preservation and improvement of housing and commercial buildings. work with city agencies and residents to promote neighborhood safety.
To revitalize and improve the quality of life in Asylum Hill.
Engage neighbors in improving their community, coordinate efforts to help neighbors in need, and establish relationships with local organizations to optimize neighborhood
Support Homeownership for low-income
A non-profit organization dedicated to building relationships with community members and empowering them to invest and engage with their neighborhood
Renovating abandoned houses and restoration of neighborhood to provide low cost housing
Kenwood Neighborhood Organization (KNO) is a volunteer-led organization that works collaboratively with partners and residents to address matters related to maintaining and improving the quality of life in the neighborhood.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women On the Move and the most unlike its peers is Kids Community Growing Prosperity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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 77 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 IVANHOE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RUSKIN HEIGHTS HOMES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POETRY FOR PERSONAL POWER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Jerusalem Farm ↗
- Who funds Westside Community Action Netw ↗
- Who funds LYKINS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Heart of the City Neighborhood Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS ASYLUM ↗
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: Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Enterprise Center of Johnson County · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Heartland Conservation Alliance · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Capital Fund 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.