· Private foundation
Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Girl Scouts of NE Kansas & NW Missouri | $38,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS | $34,900 |
| KANSAS CITY HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE | $30,000 |
| Love Fund for Children | $30,000 |
| LEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES | $30,000 |
| Lifeflight Eagle Air Ambulance | $27,520 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER KANSAS CITY INC | $25,000 |
| Operation Breakthrough | $25,000 |
| Community Services League | $22,075 |
| FOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC | $21,600 |
| GIVING THE BASICS | $20,000 |
| Powell Gardens | $20,000 |
| THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY | $19,250 |
| SETON CENTER INC | $18,509 |
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 (FY17–24, $453k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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.
54 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 8 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital5× · 2017–2023 · $900k · revenue +67%
- LFLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC6× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +37%
- TFTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY7× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CMCHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL CLINICSone grant, 2018 · $50k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ZOOone grant, 2018 · $50k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KS NW MOone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
Nurture kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. we work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
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 111 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 The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK ↗
- Who funds ARTSTECH ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LINUS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds BIKE WALK KC ↗
- Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
- Who funds URBAN RANGER CORPS ↗
- Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds Wildwood Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
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 · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Sunderland 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 Edward & Kathryn Mader 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.
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