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David Woods Kemper Veterans Foundation at a glance

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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.

$166k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$96k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$346kHuman Services$321kHealth$256kEducation$210kCommunity Improvement$60kArts & Culture$42kPublic Benefit$40k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOTPRINTS INC$95,794
Individual grant recipient$40,000
WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS$30,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION FRONTLINE FAMILIES (FORMERLY CAREGIVERS ON THE HOMEFRONT): $53k → 8%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $50k → 21%CAREGIVERS ON THE HOMEFRONT: $45k → 8%CAREGIVERS ON THE HOMEFRONT: $44k → 8%CAREGIVERS ON THE HOMEFRONT: $9k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 5 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +171% since the first grant, against +53% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$1.0M
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+171%
+53%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • FI
    FOOTPRINTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $336k · revenue +339%
  • WH
    WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +171%
  • VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT
    3× · 2019–2022 · $175k · revenue +484%

Funded once

  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +69%
  • HK
    HUMANITIES KANSAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +0%
  • AA
    AFTER ACTION NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $33k
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
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Us Dept of Ks

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.

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2
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.

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3
Veterans Place of Washington Boulevard

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Veterans Recovery Resources

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,…

Public Benefit
5
Veterans Navigation Network

Transition for service members.

Health
6
Warrior Reunion Foundation

Supports combat veterans in overcoming the challenges of post-military transition by reconnecting those who served together overseas through the execution of recovery reunions.

Public Benefit
7
Warrior Built Foundation Inc

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…

Health
8
Missouri Veterans Endeavor

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…

Human Services
9
It's About the Warriors Foundation

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.

Public Benefit
10
The Soldiers Project

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…

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11
Pets for Patriots Inc

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.…

Animals
12
Trackside Veteran Salute Foundation Nfp

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.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanities Kansas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOTPRINTS INC: $335,794 · HealthFOOTPRINTS INCWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $200,000 · HealthWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC+1 more: $10,500 · HealthKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVE…EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationEMPORIA STATE UNIV…CAREGIVERS ON THE HOMEFRONT INC: $150,726 · Human ServicesCAREGIVERS ON THE…INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $50,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INS…VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $175,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS COMMUN…Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherAFTER ACTION NETWORK INC: $33,350 · OtherTHE WARRIORS HOPE PROJECT DBA WARRIORS' ASCENT: $27,000 · OtherHUMANITIES KANSAS INC: $35,500 · Arts & CultureUNICORN THEATRE: $6,500 · Arts & Culture
Health$546,294Education$210,000Human Services$200,726Public Benefit$175,000Other$100,350Arts & Culture$42,000

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 budgetFOOTPRINTS INC: $335,794 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $200,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $175,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCAREGIVERS ON THE HOMEFRONT INC: $150,726 over 4y, 21% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANITIES KANSAS INC: $35,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWarriors Ascent: $10,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUNICORN THEATRE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Woods Kemper Veterans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Woods Kemper Veterans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s 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
    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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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