· Private foundation
Edward F Swinney 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEARTLAND FOUNDATION | $109,000 |
| WORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +194% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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
- KCKANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $250k · revenue +194%
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2019–2024 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2019–2022 · $7k
Funded once
- HAHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $122k · revenue +2%
- USUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
- KCKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +6%
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.
We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…
To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Kc parade of heart's mission is to unite the kansas city region through a free, first-of-its-kind public art experience featuring unique heart sculptures created by local artists and designers. embracing the kc regional identity as the…
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to promoting the rich culture of Kansas City through performance and education. We strive to be a leading voice, ensuring that Kansas City's influential jazz tradition continues to thrive and…
Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…
Kmac is louisvilles premier contemporary art museum in downtown louisville on museum row. through exhibitions, education, and outreach, kmac works to connect people to art and creative practice.
To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.
HKC protects, promotes, and preserves greater KC's historic places. Through advocacy and education, we bring people and organizations together to influence the future of KC's historic buildings and neighborhoods.
The organization's mission is to create, recruit, grow and retain technology and bioscience businesses in northeast kansas with the ultimate vision to build a more modern, resilient and diverse regional economy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Heartland Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THANK YOU WALT DISNEY INC ↗
- Who funds WORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC ↗
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: The H & R Block Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Edward F Swinney Trust · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Edward F Swinney 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.