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E Kemper Carter & Anna Curry Carter Community

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$865k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2019–2024.

Human Services$780kFood & Nutrition$618kHousing & Shelter$590kArts & Culture$535kEducation$525kHealth$409kCommunity Improvement$225kPhilanthropy$180kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $475k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION$300,000
DTC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC$200,000
MAKE-A-WISH KANSAS AND MISSOURI$150,000
GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$75,000
GUADALUPE CENTERS$50,000
THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION$25,000
KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC$25,000
LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA I$10,000
ST LUKES FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FDN: $25k → 9%SafeHome: $15k → 5%MAKE A WISH MISSOURI: $10k → 11%CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%MAKE A WISH MISSOURI: $3k → 11%MAKE A WISH MISSOURI: $1k → 11%THE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FDN: $25k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER KC: $15k → 15%CENTER OF GRACE: $25k → 5%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $10k → 15%PAWSPERITY INC: $10k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $10k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $10k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $10k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $10k → 15%Lazarus Ministries at Grand Avenue Temp: $20k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES OF GRAND AVE: $15k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%PETE'S GARDEN: $3k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $50k → 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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 25 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
72

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+20%

Still filing today

96%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S VETERANS CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +43%
  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +36%
  • TP
    THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • MR
    MISSOURI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +7% · 45% of their budget
  • SS
    SYNERGY SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +31%
  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA
    one grant, 2020 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
3
Full Employment Council Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
4
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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5
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
6
Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment
7
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement
8
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
9
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
10
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.

—
11
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
12
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lyriks Institution. 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 backsteadyArts and Cultural Organizat…Kansas City Community Found…Faith-Based Child & Family …Affordable Senior HousingAnimal Welfare OrganizationsFaith-Based Community Servi…Education Funding Foundatio…Supportive Housing and Empl…Kansas City Community Devel…Health Services and ResearchCharter and Independent Sch…Professional Industry Assoc…
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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr13%12%5–10yr17%26%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr21%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr17%30%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr21%36%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/84
the rest of the field
13%
1,778/13,930

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.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 104 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/81
Grantees still filing
58/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE KASNAS CITY ZOO — $150,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE KASNAS CITY ZOOMAKE-A-WISH KANSAS AND MISSOURI — $150,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH KANSAS AND MISSOURITHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $125,000 · OtherTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONKIDSTLC INC — $100,000 · OtherLYRIC OPERA — $75,000 · OtherDTC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $200,000 · OtherDTC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $125,000 · OtherVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECTGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $125,000 · OtherGreater Kansas City Community Foundation+45 more — $919,100 · Other+45 moreMISSOURI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION — $250,000 · EducationMISSOURI RES…ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $125,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR…THE EDUCATOR ACADEMY INC — $30,000 · EducationTHE EDUCATOR…AVILA UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationBRIGHT FUTURES FUND — $25,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $25,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $20,000 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $500,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN ROY…LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA…KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $62,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY…STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSTARLIGHT T…THANK YOU WALT DISNEY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHANK YOU W…LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $36,000 · Arts & CultureLION GLOBAL…Overland Park Historical Society Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $26,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreSYNERGY SERVICES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SE…THE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHOSEN…GUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE …LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC — $35,000 · Human ServicesLAZARUS MI…SLEEPYHEAD BEDS — $30,000 · Human ServicesSLEEPYHEAD…CENTER OF GRACE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INC — $15,000 · Human Services+6 more — $53,500 · Human Services+6 moreST MICHAEL'S VETERANS CENTER INC — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterSHEFFIELD PLACE — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterRIVER OF REFUGE — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $65,000 · HealthINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC — $50,000 · HealthOLATHE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthWelcome House Inc — $50,000 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthSWOPE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthLYRIKS INSTITUTION — $15,000 · HealthLEVELUP KIDS INC — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $10,000 · Health
Other$1,969,100Education$510,000Recreation & Sports$500,000Arts & Culture$470,000Human Services$413,500Housing & Shelter$330,000Health$300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $500,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMISSOURI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION — $250,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetST MICHAEL'S VETERANS CENTER INC — $250,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC — $200,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDTC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $200,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $125,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $125,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKIDSTLC INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $62,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOLATHE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHANK YOU WALT DISNEY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWelcome House Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetARIZONA RESTAURANT AND HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAZARUS MINISTRIES KC — $35,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE EDUCATOR ACADEMY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSLEEPYHEAD BEDS — $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRIVER OF REFUGE — $30,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $28,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER OF GRACE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSWOPE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAVILA UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOverland Park Historical Society Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLYRIKS INSTITUTION — $15,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEHOME INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Greater Kansas City C…The H & R Block Found…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…The Sunderland Founda…Geraldine and R a Bar…Ewing Marion Kauffman…William T Kemper Foun…R a Long Foundation 6…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Kansas City Royal…Kearney Wornall Found…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO82.6× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Geraldine and R a Barrows Foundation 10013700 · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Kearney Wornall Foundation 10017900

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 E Kemper Carter & Anna Curry Carter Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
    30report 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

    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.

    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 104 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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