· Private foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k108 grants · $406k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k157 grants · $19M
- $250k+55 grants · $75M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREAT JOBS KC | $20,475,583 |
| GREAT JOBS KC | $9,634,064 |
| SCHOOL SMART KC INC | $5,000,000 |
| EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC | $4,646,698 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC | $2,896,698 |
| REAL WORLD INITIATIVES | $2,750,000 |
| THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $2,600,000 |
| NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE | $2,095,188 |
| REAL WORLD INITIATIVES | $2,000,000 |
| GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK INC | $1,200,000 |
| NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER | $1,134,935 |
| PIPELINE INC | $1,000,000 |
| HOLY ROSARY CREDIT UNION | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $18.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 76% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
693 repeat relationships — 246 still active in FY2024, 447 since wound down; 44 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.9M 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
- GJGREAT JOBS KC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $121M · revenue ×12 · 95% of their budget
- EMEWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $39M · revenue +56% · 31% of their budget
- NLNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +96%
Funded once
- DDREAMSPRINGone grant, 2023 · $4.3M · revenue -1% · 29% of their budget
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University Office of Sponsoredone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- BOBoard of Trustees of theone grant, 2020 · $809k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
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.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Muriel Mcbrien Kauffman Family 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
768 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. 768 of the 1,137 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL SMART KC INC ↗
- Who funds REAL ESTATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SKILLED KC TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALTCAP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PIPELINE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK ↗
- Who funds REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATOR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMSPRING ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK ↗
- Who funds FORWARD CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds BIOSTL ↗
- Who funds HOLY ROSARY CREDIT UNION ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY STARTUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEAN LAB INC LEAN LAB EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds INTERISE INC ↗
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: Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
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 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 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.
- National Bureau of Economic Research Inc — 48% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Rural Development Initiatives Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
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.