· Private foundation
Communityamerica Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEG | $50,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KANSAS | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHARITABLE GIVING UNDER THRESHOLD | $1,895 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CITY YEAR INC5× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +8%
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT5× · 2018–2022 · $285k · revenue +574%- LKLITERACY KANSAS CITY4× · 2018–2021 · $86k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- KCKansas City Kansas Ciommunity Colleone grant, 2024 · $65k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INCone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -21%
- CSCommunity Services League of Jackson Countygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +91%
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.
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.
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.
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
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.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
The full employment council is a business-led, private, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to obtain public and private sector employment for the unemployed and underemployed residents of the greater kansas city area.
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…
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 90 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds TURN THE PAGE KC INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Umb Financial Corporation Charitable · Truman Heartland Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Communityamerica Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Communityamerica Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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