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Communityamerica Credit Union

COMMUNITYAMERICA CREDIT UNION's primary purpose is to promote the financial well being of its credit union members through financial services and products.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$2.3MHealth$991kYouth Development$846kEducation$760kHuman Services$406kInternational$364kArts & Culture$232kCommunity Improvement$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $1,026,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,061,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $161k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $860k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Mercy Hospital$200,000
KCK Community College Foundation$200,000
Greater St Louis Inc$100,000
15 and the Mahomies$75,000
Starlight Theatre Association of KC$75,000
Junior Achievement of Grater Kansas City$60,000
Guadalupe Centers Inc$50,000
The Metropolitan Community College Foundation$50,000
Big League Impact$50,000
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kansas City$25,000
City Year Inc$25,000
Kansas City Area Development Council$25,000
Seven Days Inc$15,000
The University of Kansas Hospital$10,600
St Michael The Archangel Catholic High School$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $249k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Systems of Care Initiative Inc: $13k → 14%HILLCREST TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $10k → 8%HILLCREST TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $8k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER KC: $10k → 5%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KC-STJOSEPH: $10k → 15%Cornerstone of Care: $16k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KC - ST JOSEPH: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $18k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $15k → 15%Hope House: $6k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $10k → 15%Guadalupe Centers Inc: $50k → 15%Guadalupe Centers Inc: $50k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
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NY
MA
OH
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AZ
KS
TX

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.

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.
$5.8M · 38 repeat orgs$631k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
21

Total granted

$5.8M
$291k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+21%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $341k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

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

  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    7× · 2018–2024 · $433k · revenue +41%
  • 1A
    15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $364k · revenue +162%
  • RU
    ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $178k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +185%
  • KC
    KC COMMON GOOD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +153%
  • US
    UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +81%

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
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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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2
Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…

Science & Tech
3
The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City

To accelerate growth in the region's prosperity and quality of life for all by strategically deploying the personal and corporate resources, influence and expertise of the region's business and civic leaders.

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4
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
5
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City Foundation

The chamber of commerce of greater kansas city foundation's mission is to invest in solutions that empower current and future generations in the kansas city community. the foundation is organized and operated exclusively for exempt…

Philanthropy
6
Great Jobs Kc Inc

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.

Education
7
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…

Education
8
Kansas City Care Clinic

The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.

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9
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
10
Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City

To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.

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11
Greater Kansas City Sports Foundation

Foster and support amateur sports competition

Recreation & Sports
12
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyKansas City Community Devel…Disability Services & Suppo…Performing Arts Education &…Healthcare and Wellness Ser…Wisconsin Advocacy Organiza…Faith-Based Community Servi…K-12 Schools and Educationa…Community Recreation & Spor…Family Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%11%5–10yr16%16%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr22%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%45%5–10yr16%5%10–20yr15%5%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr22%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
13%
2,346/17,671

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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITYAMERICA FOUNDATION — $2,131,518 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITYAMERICA FOUNDATION+2 more — $45,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHORITY — $255,600 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HO…CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $103,600 · OtherCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SIST…United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $100,000 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Kansa…Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City — $78,500 · OtherGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS COMMISSION — $57,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC — $210,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDL…GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $100,000 · OtherGREATER ST LOUIS INCSEVENDAYS INC — $54,000 · OtherHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $60,000 · Other+19 more — $524,800 · Other+19 more15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION — $364,057 · Youth Development15 AND THE M…BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF…+2 more — $12,557 · Youth DevelopmentThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $433,340 · HealthThe Children…American Heart Association Inc — $100,000 · HealthAmerican Hea…TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthTRUMAN MEDIC…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $35,000 · HealthINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC — $35,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc — $30,000 · Health+2 more — $22,400 · HealthKANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY …ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $177,500 · EducationROCKHURST UN…Metropolitan Community College Foundation — $137,700 · EducationMetropolitan…OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $133,500 · EducationOPERATION BR…+4 more — $45,750 · Education+4 moreGUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesBig League Impact Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Services League of Jackson County — $42,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $17,500 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $15,725 · Human ServicesSystems of Care Initiative Inc — $12,500 · Human Services+2 more — $15,500 · Human ServicesSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $136,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureLAWRENCE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$2,176,518Other$1,544,000Youth Development$726,614Health$705,740Education$694,450Human Services$348,725Arts & Culture$232,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITYAMERICA FOUNDATION — $2,131,518 over 6y, 100% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $433,340 over 7y, 0.0% of budget15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION — $364,057 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $350,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC — $210,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $177,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Community College Foundation — $137,700 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $136,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $133,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $103,600 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBig League Impact Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City — $78,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS COMMISSION — $57,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSEVENDAYS INC — $54,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Services League of Jackson County — $42,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKC COMMON GOOD INC — $40,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAWESOME AMBITIONS — $35,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKansas City Soccer Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHEARTLAND CREDIT UNION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $26,600 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $15,725 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSystems of Care Initiative Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation — $12,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSSM HEALTH FOUNDATION - ST LOUIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Kansas City Royal…United Way of Greater…Jewish Community Foun…Commerce Bancshares F…The Sunderland Founda…Hallmark Corporate Fo…The H & R Block Found…Truman Heartland Comm…Oppenstein Brothers F…Jackson County Commun…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO51.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Truman Heartland Community Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services 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 organization Communityamerica Credit Union 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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