· Private foundation
Edward F Swinney Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $60,000 |
| TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS | $60,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $55,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| PAWSPERITY INC | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- CCCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +317%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward F Swinney Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward F Swinney Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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