· Private foundation
Edward F Swinney Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $765k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM & MEMORIAL | $250,000 |
| KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF KANSAS CITY MO | $125,000 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER | $65,000 |
| TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS | $60,000 |
| CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $60,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $55,000 |
| PAWSPERITY INC | $50,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE OF JACKSON COUNTY | $45,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES KC - ST JOSEPH INC | $35,000 |
| TRUE LIGHT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| CITY YEAR KANSAS CITY | $30,000 |
| HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN | $30,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k 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
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK6× · 2020–2025 · $900k · revenue +10%
- MCMetropolitan Community College Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $800k · revenue +9%
- USUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC3× · 2019–2022 · $550k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TMTHE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $250k
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONALone grant, 2019 · $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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
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…
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Unis mission is to partner with kansas citys urban core neighborhoods to bring business, government, and community organizations together to improve prosperity, health, safety & education in the community.
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Northland Assistance Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 50 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 HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds Heartland Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds START AT ZERO INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds True Light Family Resource Center ↗
- Who funds MARIAN HOPE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
- Who funds Camp Encourage ↗
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 · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Francis Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Truman Heartland Community 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 Trust 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.