· Private foundation
Elsberry Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS CITY BALLET | $18,250 |
| UNIVERSTIY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY | $14,130 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $12,500 |
| STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOC OF KANSAS CITY | $10,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF KC | $5,085 |
| THE PEMBROOK HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHILLICOTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $250 |
| HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its 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 +88% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $77k · revenue +91%
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +21%
- STSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
- UCUMKC CRESCENDO GALA 2023one grant, 2023 · $11k
- UCUMKC CRESCENDO GALA 2022one grant, 2022 · $9k
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.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To secure and provide funds and resources to enhance student learning in the kansas city public schools.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To enrich the lives of everyone in our community through extraordinary and diverse performing arts experiences. these experiences are provided through programs, customer service, and education.(continued on schedule o)programs: showcase a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Midland festival ballet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to promote and present the art of classical ballet through education, performance, and outreach.
The ballet's mission is to preserve and advance the art of ballet, to increase access to ballet, and to use the minnesota ballet resources to serve the greater community. the ballet's goals are to educate through our school and company the…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Summit Future Foundation ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elsberry Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elsberry Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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