· Public charity
David Woods Kemper Veterans Foundation
To aid programs, projects, services, research and other endeavors in kansas and missouri that promote the well-being for veterans.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOTPRINTS INC | $95,794 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS | $30,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +171% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- FIFOOTPRINTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $336k · revenue +339%
- WHWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC3× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +171%
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT3× · 2019–2022 · $175k · revenue +319%
Funded once
- IIINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +69%
- HKHUMANITIES KANSAS INCone grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +0%
- AAAFTER ACTION NETWORK INCone grant, 2019 · $33k
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.
Support the statewide membership of the veterans of foeign wars and manage, process, support and represent claims submitted to the federal department of veterans affairs.
Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.
To empower veterans' transition from homeless to home, ending the cycle of homelessness, and to assist all at-risk veterans to become engaged, valuable citizens who contribute to their communities.
Our mission is to remove barriers to care, deliver quality integrated health care, and build a better community through recovery and connection. our vision is to build a thriving community where service members, veterans, first responders,…
Transition for service members.
Supports combat veterans in overcoming the challenges of post-military transition by reconnecting those who served together overseas through the execution of recovery reunions.
Organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes for combat veterans to provide motivation, camaraderie, and to offer a release to cope with similar difficulties in a positive and therapeutic way. Providing safe, fun, and…
Us vets-missouri is a nonprofit corporation organized under the nonprofit benefit laws of the state of missouri. it was established to provide supportive services and housing for veterans of the united states armed forces and their…
To assist and empower all post 9/11 veterans and their families from the tri-state area, regardless if they have been wounded or have been deployed, with our various programs thus, leading them to a successful and enriched life.
The soldiers project is committed to providing a safety net of psychological care for military service members and their loved ones, as well as educating the general public on how the psychological consequences of war affect both those who…
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
Provide opportunity to Veterans to experiance opportunities of entertainment through motorsports to allow them to escape and bond with new friends via speacial VIP experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanities Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is War Horses for Veterans Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 FOOTPRINTS INC ↗
- Who funds WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVERS ON THE HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Warriors Ascent ↗
- Who funds UNICORN THEATRE ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 David Woods Kemper Veterans 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.
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.