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Elmer C Rhoden Charitable Foundation Co
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $349k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| UMKC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LEARNING CLUB OF KCK | $45,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC | $40,000 |
| KU ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| MOCSA | $35,000 |
| A L S ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| CORNERSTONES OF CARE | $35,000 |
| SYNAPSE HOUSE | $34,320 |
| FIRST CALL ALCOHOL DRUG PREVENTION | $30,000 |
| ANGEL CHARITY FOR | $30,000 |
| NUTURE KC | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +18% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- LCLEARNING CLUB OF KCK6× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +18%
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +23%
- COCORNERSTONES OF CARE6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- FSFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTSone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -15%
- SDSAN DIEGO NORTH COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TMTHE MATERNAL AND CHILDone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
The mission of the corporation is to prevent child abuse, preserve the family, and treat children who have been abused and neglected.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…
Reduce the impact an impaired driving crash has on victims, survivors and their families, and increase awareness of the traumatic human consequences of the choice to drive impaired
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Breakthrough Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstones of Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING CLUB OF KCK ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds NURTURE KC ↗
- Who funds SYNAPSE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS ↗
- Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds PRO DEO YOUTH CENTER ↗
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 · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Morgan Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · Prime Health Foundation 10026400 · The Research 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 Elmer C Rhoden Charitable Foundation Co 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.
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