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Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation at a glance

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Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$596k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.4MHuman Services$1.0MYouth Development$494kArts & Culture$318kAnimals$313kEducation$287kFood & Nutrition$204kRecreation & Sports$171kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $545k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Operation Breakthrough$25,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER KANSAS CITY INC$25,000
Community Services League$22,075
FOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC$21,600
Powell Gardens$20,000
GIVING THE BASICS$20,000
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY$19,250
SETON CENTER INC$18,509
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LINUS PROJECT: $20k → 8%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $24k → 16%PROJECT LINUS: $18k → 8%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $24k → 16%LINUS PROJECT: $15k → 8%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $19k → 16%LINUS PROJECT: $15k → 8%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $19k → 16%PROJECT LINUS: $8k → 8%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $15k → 15%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $18k → 16%The Family Conservancy: $15k → 16%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $15k → 15%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $12k → 16%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $7k → 16%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $12k → 15%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $7k → 16%CAMP MITIOG: $15k → 8%THE AIDAN PROJECT: $10k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $11k → 5%FOSTER KIDS KC: $5k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $25k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $15k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $12k → 15%Community Services League: $25k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $23k → 15%Community Services League: $22k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $17k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $10k → 15%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 54 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
49

Total granted

$3.7M
$912k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+50%

Still filing today

93%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    5× · 2017–2023 · $900k · revenue +67%
  • LF
    LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +37%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KS NW MO
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ZOO
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL CLINICS
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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
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.

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2
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
3
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
4
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health
5
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
6
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
7
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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8
Kansas Action for Children Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
10
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
11
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
12
Nurture Kc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 111 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
61/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $170,000 · OtherLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INCLEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES: $150,000 · OtherLEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICESGIVING THE BASICS INC: $100,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $88,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $75,550 · Other+58 more: $1,539,550 · Other+58 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $900,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospit…MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $62,500 · HealthMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCI…CASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+8 more: $133,480 · Health+8 moreTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $131,798 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY…Community Services League of Jackson County: $86,875 · Human ServicesCommunity …PROJECT LINUS: $75,686 · Human ServicesPROJECT LI…CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $53,690 · Human ServicesCORNERSTON…HAPPYBOTTOMS: $50,800 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTO…+5 more: $54,000 · Human Services+5 moreARTSTECH: $95,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $50,000 · EducationCROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $30,840 · EducationGREAT JOBS KC INC: $25,000 · EducationHOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · EducationKansas City University: $21,600 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $19,300 · EducationGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $12,500 · EducationFRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC: $120,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $100,000 · AnimalsWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $42,966 · AnimalsMUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $33,069 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $25,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY INC: $21,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureENGLEWOOD ARTS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $13,109 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN RANGER CORPS: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LINC: $27,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,391 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,123,600Health$1,145,980Human Services$452,849Education$294,240Animals$262,966Arts & Culture$262,678Housing & Shelter$162,891

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 budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $900,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $170,000 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetLEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES: $150,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $131,798 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC: $120,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTSTECH: $95,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $88,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Services League of Jackson County: $86,875 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetPROJECT LINUS: $75,686 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $75,550 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $62,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetSeton Center Inc: $57,605 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSAVE INC: $54,785 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $53,690 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIKE WALK KC: $51,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $50,800 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKIDSTLC INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN RANGER CORPS: $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $49,468 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $42,966 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $39,247 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $37,513 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $37,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC: $35,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $33,069 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $30,840 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC: $28,800 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT JOBS KC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC: $24,717 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC: $23,019 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,300 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKansas City University: $21,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY INC: $21,500 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $20,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 CASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN RANGER CORPS ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Oppenstein Brothers F…R a Long Foundation 6…The H & R Block Found…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Francis Family Fo…The Kansas City Royal…Jackson County Commun…The Sherman Family Fo…The Sunderland Founda…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO81.7× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%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
    1get no government money at all
    31report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 111 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-PF 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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