· Public charity
Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri
The mission of the edc is to drive economic development and create an environment in which businesses and residents can prosper and grow in kansas city, missouri.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $1,350,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,716,748 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $366,748 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC | $1,000,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CUPINI'S | $15,000 |
| URBAN ON ARMOUR & TROOST | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| OURHOUSEKC | $12,000 |
| KOBI Q | $12,000 |
| NICK AND NINO S PUB | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| THE COMBINE | $11,000 |
| ODDLY CORRECT LLC | $10,000 |
| CAFE OLLAMA LLC | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO STATE PIZZA CO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +64% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- ELEDC LOAN CORPORATION4× · 2017–2021 · $3.4M · revenue +8% · 76% of their budget
- NLNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC2× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +182%
- KCKANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL2× · 2019–2020 · $17k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- RMRUSSELL MERIT LLCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- TLThe Leroy Satchel Paige Family Home Corp Incone grant, 2023 · $500k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR REGENERATION INCone grant, 2023 · $250k
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.
The mission of the edc is to drive economic development and create an environment in which businesses and residents can prosper and grow in kansas city, missouri.
The mission of the downtown council is to to create and maintain an urban environment that provides (1) economic reasons for businesses to be downtown, (2) a quality of life that encourages people to live downtown, and (3) enterainment and…
Work to suport commercial, mixed use, and residential progress and effective community, economic, and aesthetic development to create and encourage the renewal and vitality of Midtown Kansas City, Missouri.
To promote area commerce
The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
The foundation enhances the quality of life for the kansas city region through tourism advocacy and workforce development.
To promote economic development in dickinson county by attracting new industries and retaining existing businesses while enhancing and improving the quality of life for businesses, residents and visitors.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Economic development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures and the most unlike its peers is Kansas City Startup Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 54 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 EDC LOAN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EDC STRATEGIC INITIATIVES FUND ↗
- Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Leroy Satchel Paige Family Home Corp Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR REGENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CIVIC VENTURES ↗
- Who funds Prospect Business Association ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KC DIGITAL DRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Twelfth Street Heritage Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY STARTUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA INDIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR DELTA EDUCATIONAL & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HELP ↗
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: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Arvest Foundation · Hall Family Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri 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.