Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904

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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$9.1MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$819kEducation$775kCommunity Improvement$685kEnvironment$380kRecreation & Sports$259kFood & Nutrition$180kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $642k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $795k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL SYSTEM$500,000
KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$416,000
KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$416,000
KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$138,667
THE PRINCIPIA CORPORATION$100,000
DENVER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$75,000
CAPS NETWORK INC$75,000
CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL$55,912
GREEN LIGHT FUND$50,000
RECONCILIATION SERVICES$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
PROTECT OUR PAST INC$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ART AS MENTORSHIP$50,000
KANSAS CITY STARTUP FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES: $5k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $15k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES: $5k → 8%THERE WITH CARE: $50k → 12%PALS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 5%EPEC INC: $10k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $1k → 15%HOPE FAITH MINISTRIES: $30k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $50k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
WI
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MO
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 40 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
75

Total granted

$10M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+33%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • KM
    KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +6% · 60% of their budget
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    3× · 2019–2024 · $205k · revenue +47%
  • TD
    TFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +61% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • KM
    Kemper Museum
    one grant, 2021 · $516k
  • DB
    DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -9%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $245k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kansas City Art Institute

The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.

Education
2
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
3
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
4
Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.

—
5
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
6
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

—
7
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
8
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
9
Kansas Academy of Family Physicians

The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…

—
10
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education
11
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…

Education
12
Ewing Marion Kauffman School Inc

The mission of the kauffman school is to prepare students to excel academically, graduate from college and apply their unique talents in the world to create economically independent and personally fulfilling lives.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barnabas Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Mentoring ProgramsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsDevelopmental Disabilities …Youth Sports ProgramsChristian Youth CampsFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%5%<5yr12%8%5–10yr16%15%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr24%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%56%<5yr12%5%5–10yr16%6%10–20yr15%9%20–35yr16%8%35–55yr24%16%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 56% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/111
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,380

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.

04the grantee network

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 150 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
70/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION — $6,247,668 · Arts & CultureKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION+23 more — $979,040 · Arts & Culture+23 moreKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $750,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONKemper Museum — $516,000 · OtherKemper MuseumUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL SYSTEM — $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL SYSTEMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY — $244,630 · OtherSALVATION ARMY-DENVER — $200,000 · OtherKansas City CARE Clinic — $200,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $200,000 · OtherTFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE — $200,000 · Other+77 more — $2,469,200 · Other+77 moreHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY — $125,000 · EducationCAPS NETWORK INC — $125,000 · EducationThe Principia Corporation — $100,000 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATION — $68,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $60,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY STARTUP FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED — $35,000 · EducationYEP Kansas City — $30,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI CHARTER SCHOOLS — $25,000 · Education+6 more — $70,000 · EducationThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $205,383 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $50,000 · HealthSaint Lukes Foundation — $35,000 · HealthTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC — $30,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Health+3 more — $30,000 · HealthDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $300,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc — $50,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $150,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $115,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $60,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $15,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARE — $50,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $50,000 · Human ServicesHope Faith Ministries Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $25,000 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC — $15,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $11,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$7,226,708Other$5,279,830Education$688,000Health$375,383Environment$355,000Community Improvement$340,000Human Services$261,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION — $6,247,668 over 5y, 60% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY — $244,630 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $205,383 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic — $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE — $200,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetBOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — $190,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $150,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART — $133,340 over 1y, 24% of budgetHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY — $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCAPS NETWORK INC — $125,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $115,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC — $110,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetENACTUS — $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe Principia Corporation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC — $95,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetREACHING OUT FROM WITHIN INC — $90,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetBOYS GROW CORP — $80,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST — $80,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPROTECT OUR PAST INC — $80,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION — $68,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $64,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY STARTUP FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Public Square Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetART AS MENTORSHIP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLAZA ACADEMY — $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED — $35,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHALO FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHope Faith Ministries Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $28,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBIG IDEA PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetThe Cedars Camps Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…R C Kemper Charitable…Ewing Marion Kauffman…William T Kemper Char…United Way of Greater…R C Kemper Jr Charita…The Francis Family Fo…The H & R Block Found…Marion and Henry Bloc…Oppenstein Brothers F…William T Kemper Foun…G Kenneth and Ann Bau…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO77.6× affinity52 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 C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800 · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · William T Kemper Charitable Trust 10015200 · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · R C Kemper Jr Charitable Trust 10023600 · The Francis Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund

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 Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
  • Chatham Historical Society Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904?

Find your warmest path to Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 150 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home