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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.

$509k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.3MEducation$875kHuman Services$260kInternational$205kYouth Development$180kCommunity Improvement$120kCrime & Legal$70kReligion$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $349k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
A L S ASSOCIATION$35,000
MOCSA$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $35k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $35k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $35k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $35k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $30k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $25k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 19 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
8

Total granted

$3.0M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+4%

Still filing today

53%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LC
    LEARNING CLUB OF KCK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +18%
  • OB
    OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +23%
  • CO
    CORNERSTONES OF CARE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FS
    FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -15%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO NORTH COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TM
    THE MATERNAL AND CHILD
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
2
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
3
Cornerhouse

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

—
5
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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6
Kids in Distress Inc

The mission of the corporation is to prevent child abuse, preserve the family, and treat children who have been abused and neglected.

Human Services
7
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
8
Kids in Need Foundation

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…

Education
9
Dui Victims Center of Kansas Inc

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

Education
10
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

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,…

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11
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
12
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Breakthrough Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $540,000 · OtherSAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONA L S ASSOCIATION: $165,000 · OtherA L S ASSOCIATIONANGEL CHARITY FOR: $160,000 · OtherANGEL CHARITY FORPauma School Foundation: $155,000 · OtherPauma School FoundationSAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL CHILDREN'S SPOT: $135,000 · OtherSAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL CHILDREN'S SPOTMOCSA-METRO ORGANIZATION TO: $95,000 · OtherMOCSA-METRO ORGANIZATION TOIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKANSAS UNI ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · Other+8 more: $220,000 · Other+8 moreUMKC FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATIONLEARNING CLUB OF KCK: $230,000 · EducationLEARNING CLUB OF KCKOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $205,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INCThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $160,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowme…PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $165,000 · HealthPALOMAR HEA…NURTURE KC: $135,000 · HealthNURTURE KCLEVELUP KIDS INC: $30,000 · HealthLEVELUP KID…CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $195,000 · Human ServicesSYNAPSE HOUSE: $129,320 · Public BenefitMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $70,000 · Crime & LegalRESTART INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterPRO DEO YOUTH CENTER: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,640,000Education$845,000Health$330,000Human Services$195,000Public Benefit$129,320Crime & Legal$70,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLEARNING CLUB OF KCK: $230,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $205,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $195,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURE KC: $135,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSYNAPSE HOUSE: $129,320 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRESTART INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRO DEO YOUTH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Elmer C Rhoden Charitable Foundation Co funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elmer C Rhoden Charitable Foundation Co. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Elmer C Rhoden Charitable Foundation Co through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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