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David Woods Kemper Memorial 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.

$157k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2019–2020.

Education$286kArts & Culture$93kHealth$83kEnvironment$35kPhilanthropy$31kPublic Benefit$31kReligion$18kScience & Tech$15kOther$0
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARSTOW SCHOOL$150,000
GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $10k → 7%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES NORTON'S WOODS: $3k → 8%HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $10k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $10k → 9%SCHOLARMATCH INC: $5k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE - READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 14%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC: $10k → 9%TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES THE WATERGATE: $13k → 14%EISENHOWER FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%BIG BRUTUS INC: $3k → 16%CONGREGATION TEMPLE ISRAEL: $13k → 11%NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $30k → 15%FOREST PARK FOREVER INC DENNIS & JUDITH JONES VISITOR AND EDUCATION CENTER: $3k → 21%TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $48k → 11%CHATHAM HALL: $6k → 14%ROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - KCUR RADIO: $3k → 15%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $20k → 21%TODAY AND TOMORROW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $24k → 15%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $13k → 21%OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS: $3k → 11%CENTRAL EXCHANGE EDUCATION CENTER DBA THE CENTRAL EXCHANGE EDUCATION FOUNDA: $10k → 15%ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $8k → 21%NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES ST LOUIS COUNCIL: $25k → 11%GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%THE TOWER GROVE PARK FOUNDATION: $3k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $11k → 11%KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 15%CENTRAL EXCHANGE EDUCATION CENTER DBA THE CENTRAL EXCHANGE EDUCATION FOUNDA: $3k → 15%BARSTOW SCHOOL: $150k → 15%BARSTOW SCHOOL: $25k → 15%SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $3k → 15%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES FUND: $20k → 15%OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ST VINCENT'S FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $3k → 15%CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL: $50k → 15%TROOST MARKET COLLECTIVE: $3k → 15%LIBERTY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION DBA NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM: $5k → 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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.

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American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
3
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
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Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
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The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
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New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
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The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
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Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Scalawag. 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 backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Public Library SupportGovernment Accountability R…Classical Music EnsemblesEducation Equity LeadershipPublic School District Foun…Independent K-8 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Land Conservation Organizat…Community Arts Organizations
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 55 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%6%5–10yr16%6%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr24%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr12%1%5–10yr16%1%10–20yr15%5%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr24%73%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,455

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.

05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BARSTOW SCHOOL — $175,000 · OtherTHE BARSTOW SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — $47,925 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYCENTRAL EXCHANGE EDUCATION CENTER DBA THE CENTRAL EXCHANGE EDUCATION FOUNDA — $12,500 · OtherCONGREGATION TEMPLE ISRAEL — $12,500 · Other+11 more — $35,500 · Other+11 moreTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NELSON GALLERY …NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF …NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $12,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR …SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $12,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITU…HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC DEERFIELD …ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS ART MUSEUM…NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $50,000 · HealthThe Children's …MAYO CLINIC — $10,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICTexas Children's Hospital — $10,000 · HealthTexas Children'…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UN…+1 more — $2,500 · HealthWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $11,000 · EducationWellesley College — $10,000 · EducationCHATHAM HALL — $6,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationSCHOLARMATCH INC — $5,000 · EducationScalawag — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $32,500 · EnvironmentForest Park Forever Inc — $2,500 · EnvironmentGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $30,500 · PhilanthropyNAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES ST LOUIS COUNCIL — $25,000 · Public BenefitMPOWER NOW INC — $575 · International
Other$283,425Arts & Culture$102,500Health$82,500Education$40,500Environment$35,000Philanthropy$30,500Public Benefit$25,000International$575

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 budgetTHE BARSTOW SCHOOL — $175,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $30,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATHAM HALL — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARMATCH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScalawag — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BRUTUS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMPOWER NOW INC — $575 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

William T Kemper Foun…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Commerce Bancshares F…The Sosland FoundationMarion and Henry Bloc…The Francis Family Fo…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…United Way of Greater…The Andrew W Mellon F…St Louis Community Fo…Greater Kansas City C…
William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank TrusteeMO26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Greater Kansas City Community 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 David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 41 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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