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David and Tracy Lockton Family Foundation at a glance

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David and Tracy Lockton Family 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.

$819k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$230k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$3.1MHealth$530kCommunity Improvement$445kCrime & Legal$200kRecreation & Sports$200kPhilanthropy$70kAnimals$40kEnvironment$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $743k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIBRANT HEALTH$230,000
AMETHYST PLACES CAPITAL$200,000
THE GREENLIGHT FUND$162,500
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL$100,407
THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC$50,000
NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
KANSAS CITY ACADEMY$16,470
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS KC$15,000
AUDUBON FLORIDA$10,000
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER$10,000
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIMI'S PANTRY: $3k → 8%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 8 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$4.3M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+14%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $332k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TH
    TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $530k · revenue +60%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +19%
  • NC
    NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -9%
  • THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • MP
    MIMIS PANTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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
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
Kids in Need Foundation

We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…

Education
3
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
4
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
5
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
6
Kansas Academy of Family Physicians

The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…

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7
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
8
Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.

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9
Kansas City Public Schools Education Foundation

To secure and provide funds and resources to enhance student learning in the kansas city public schools.

Education
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

—
12
Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenlight Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mimis Pantry. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,011,183 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $16,470 · EducationTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $530,000 · HealthTURNER HOUSE…GREENLIGHT FUND INC: $445,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT…AMETHYST PLACES CAPITAL: $200,000 · OtherAMETHYST …ST PAULS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL KANSAS CITY: $100,407 · OtherST PAULS …United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $20,000 · OtherAUDUBON FLORIDA: $20,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS KC: $15,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $200,000 · Crime & LegalNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentMIMIS PANTRY: $3,000 · Human Services
Education$3,027,653Health$530,000Community Improvement$445,000Other$375,407Crime & Legal$200,000Philanthropy$50,000Environment$22,000Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,011,183 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $530,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $445,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIMIS PANTRY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 David and Tracy Lockton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Tracy Lockton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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