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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$8.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$1.2M95%
FY20233$1.8M100%
FY202117$3.5M88%
FY20208$59k50%
FY20199$124k89%
FY20182$970k50%
FY20171$140kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$3.8MArts & Culture$1.6MPublic Benefit$1.1MEducation$1.0MEnvironment$370kPhilanthropy$250kFood & Nutrition$189kHuman Services$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Edc Loan Corporation$3,390,242476%
Edc Strategic Initiatives Fund$1,110,000294%
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Inc$1,010,000210%
The Leroy Satchel Paige Family Home Corp Inc$500,0001n/a
Foundation for Regeneration Inc$250,0001n/a
Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures$35,00017%
Prospect Business Association$20,00013%
Kansas City Area Development Council$17,25020%
Kc Digital Drive Inc$12,50023%
Twelfth Street Heritage Development Corporation$12,00022%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Edc Loan Corporation$3,390,242476%
Edc Strategic Initiatives Fund$1,110,000294%
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Inc$1,010,000210%
The Leroy Satchel Paige Family Home Corp Inc$500,0001n/a
Foundation for Regeneration Inc$250,0001n/a
Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures$35,00017%
Prospect Business Association$20,00013%
Kansas City Area Development Council$17,25020%
Kc Digital Drive Inc$12,50023%
Twelfth Street Heritage Development Corporation$12,00022%
Kansas City Startup Foundation$10,50022%
Global Entrepreneurship Network$10,00010%
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey$10,00010%
Reconciliation Services$10,00010%
Friends of Bruce R Watkins Cultural Heritage Center & Museum$10,0001n/a
Generating Income for Tomorrow$10,0001n/a
Heart of America Indian Center$10,00012%
Black Archives of Mid-America Inc$10,00012%
The Foundation for Delta Educational & Economic Development$10,00014%
Charlotte Street Foundation$10,00011%
The Help$10,000146%
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City$7,00010%
Bionexus Kc$5,00010%
Soulcentricitea$5,0001n/a
1 Goal Consultants$5,0001n/a
Musical Theater Heritage Inc$5,00010%
Police Foundation of Kansas City$5,00010%
Platte County Economic Development Council Inc$5,00011%

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEdc Loan Corporation: $3,390,242 over 4y, 76% of budgetEdc Strategic Initiatives Fund: $1,110,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetNegro Leagues Baseball Museum Inc: $1,010,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetDowntown Kansas City Civic Ventures: $35,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetProspect Business Association: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKansas City Area Development Council: $17,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKc Digital Drive Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTwelfth Street Heritage Development Corporation: $12,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetKansas City Startup Foundation: $10,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGlobal Entrepreneurship Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetReconciliation Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeart of America Indian Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBlack Archives of Mid-America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Foundation for Delta Educational & Economic Development: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCharlotte Street Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Help: $10,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetChamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBionexus Kc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMusical Theater Heritage Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPolice Foundation of Kansas City: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPlatte County Economic Development Council Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Ewing Marion Kauffman…Greater Kansas City C…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…Arvest FoundationHall Family FoundationHallmark Corporate Fo…The Sunderland Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationMO29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri

How much does Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri give?
Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri reported 22 itemized grants totaling $1,350,000, out of $1,716,748 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (45%), Arts & Culture (19%), Public Benefit (13%).
Who are Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Edc Loan Corporation ($3.4M), Edc Strategic Initiatives Fund ($1.1M), Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Inc ($1.0M).
Does Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Health Forward Foundation.
Where is Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri based?
Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri is based in MO.

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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