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Edward F Swinney Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Edward F Swinney Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$109k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$500kEducation$159kYouth Development$122kHealth$27k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $109k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$913k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEARTLAND FOUNDATION$109,000
WORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC$20,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INC: $122k → 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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 3 repeat orgs$534k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +194% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$275k
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+194%
+6%

Still filing today

33%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • KC
    KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $250k · revenue +194%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    6× · 2019–2024 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2019–2022 · $7k

Funded once

  • HA
    HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $122k · revenue +2%
  • US
    UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +6%
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
Bionexus Kc

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…

Science & Tech
2
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
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3
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
4
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
5
Kc Parade of Hearts Organization Exec Dir Jenn Nussbeck

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…

Human Services
6
Kansas City Jazz Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Kansas City Kansas Community College Foundation

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…

Education
8
Kmac Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
9
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
10
Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City

To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.

—
11
Historic Kansas City Foundation

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.

—
12
Bioscience & Technology Business Center Inc

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INCTHANK YOU WALT DISNEY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHANK YOU WALT DISNEY INCWORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $80,400 · EducationKANSAS CITY ART IN…PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: $50,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR RE…HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $122,000 · Human ServicesHIGH ASPIRATIONS …Heartland Foundation: $109,000 · HealthHeartland Found…Individual grant recipient: $17,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,300 · Other
Arts & Culture$420,000Education$130,400Human Services$122,000Health$109,000Other$27,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $122,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHeartland Foundation: $109,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $80,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHANK YOU WALT DISNEY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% 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.

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.

The H & R Block Found…Marion and Henry Bloc…William T Kemper Foun…Edward F Swinney TrustG Kenneth and Ann Bau…The Sunderland Founda…Greater Kansas City C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The H & R Block FoundationMO17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.

    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 12 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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